> "it's hard because the speech programme has an American accent"

$1 is where subjects repeat speech immediately after hearing it. In this case Nas Campanella appears to be doing much more than that as she is pressing buttons and listening to a speaking clock all at the same time.

The video also shows her doing other standard journalist work including reporting in the field, court reporting and working in the news room.

It appears to be an example of what can be achieved with reasonable adjustments.

I hope this story could be inspiring to anyone struggling with History GCSE studies.

And I just realised I typoed when I wrote the title. Her name is Nas, not Bad!

Good for her. I really wish that more employers were willing to take a chance and hire blind employees. It’s depressing to see so many people get the training, get the degree, and still be turned down for a job.

She is fabulous. Kudos to her!

I also send out HUGE kudos to the woman who hired her and the company that supported that decision. This is a rarity as Nas herself says and we crips know all too well.

That there are myriad people with disabilities out there with phenomenal talent like hers is known. That there are scant few places for them to get paid for those talents is also known. More employers need to see our potential as employees and give us a chance.

That's nuts, I know I couldn't do it. I really have to have no other things happening when listening to my screen reader, or crank it way down as far as rate of speech. Never could I be listening to 4 streams of audio at once. I can do it if it's people. like, if I'm at a restaurant, I tend to sort of absorb the convos happening around me, and I can do about 4 at a time before I start losing the content, but add a screen reader to the mix, and I wouldn't be able to. I also just cannot read after the speech. I've tried, it makes me stammer and I end up forgetting what comes next. My braille proficiency isn't good enough either to read aloud but, I definitely could do it a lot better if I was able to become more proficient in braille, since I would know when to stop or slow down so I didn't get too far ahead.

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Also, she sounded a bit flat in reading that clip, and I wonder if that's a result of just not having enough time to really react with intonation. Still, mad respect for what she has done. She's showing people that if they have the determination, they can go out and make something of themselves.

Thanks for sharing this.

My dream is to become a radio host, so this inspired me a lot. I'm not sure if I could pull that off tho, since I haven't practiced reading text, while listening to a screen reader. Don't think I'm able to learn it anymore either, since I'm 26. :(

She is so talented, it shouldn't be an anomaly that a person who's blind can get jobs in competitive fields. Public perception has got to be transformed.

She is one hot genius.

I can't even really focus on another conversation when listening to my screen reader, let alone repeat everything the sr is saying in a steady, fluent and professional voice.