[Blind-rollers] lock for locker

[Smalley, Chet]

What is it about the push button lock that he doesn't like? He could use a standard pad lock, but one sacrifices security with those, and to the best of my knowledge, the push button style is an excellent, blind friendly alternative. Does this individual's CP limit his use of the push button type?
Here in the NFB, incidentally, we prefer the use of the word blind, across the board, if an individual has had to discover and refine a significant number of alternative techniques to accomplish tasks that he or she would otherwise accomplish visually. Words like "impaired," "low" and "sightless," (to cite a few) involve the use of deficit language, resulting in the concept that such an individual is a damaged sighted person. True, those terms are politically "correct," but that "correctness" is culturally and media-driven. Also, to distinguish a person with some sight from people with no sight appeals to the hierarchy of sight, a concept addressed in an excellent book entitled "Freedom for the Blind: The secret is empowerment," By James H. Omvig, but I digress.

Chet Smalley, M.A. NOMC
Pennsylvania Bureau of Blindness and Visual Services
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From: blind-rollers-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:blind-rollers-bounces at nfbnet.org]On Behalf Of Susan Vollmar
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 1:23 PM
To: blind-rollers at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Blind-rollers] lock for locker



I have a student who is having trouble finding a lock for his locker that he can access independently. He has CP and is visually impaired. Has anyone found something that works? He doesn't like the push button lock that my blind students use. 
Thanks,
Susan
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