Daniel was referred to the Center by the Foundation for the Blind. A graduate of Westchester Community Colleges’ Cyber Security program, he was hired to teach introductory computer classes to our students and JAWS/NVDA and MTA to our staff.
We teamed Dan up with Eric to develop a quiz about hardware and software basics to access new students from Westchesters’ High Schools. The assessments would be attached to their Acces-VR’s applications for future assistance along with a keyboarding test.
As you could imagine, there are some unique challenges for the blind instructor to teach a sighted student, but Daniel is special; he has an excellent memory, above-average intelligence, and his dads help to learn software/computers since he was three. With assistance from a fellow instructor, the student begins with the home page. Dan walks them through the functions from memory. Dan envisions a time when Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Alexa/Siri) is sufficiently developed to take over!
Dans’ career in cybersecurity is taking off. He just got accepted to John Jay College in Manhattan. Congratulations.
Dan – you’re definitely going places, glad we could help you on your journey.