enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: audio books for blind seniors reading comprehension activities

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Books for the Blind - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_for_the_Blind

    The Books for the Blind Program was the model for the effort in the 1950s for captioned films for the deaf leading to the Captioned Films Act of 1958. [ 6 ] Audio recordings were first created on vinyl when the Pratt-Smoot Act was amended in 1933 to include "talking books", and later, in 1969, [ 7 ] on proprietary cassette tape and player, [ 8 ...

  3. National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_Service...

    The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled [1] (NLS) is a free library program of braille and audio materials such as books and magazines circulated to eligible borrowers in the United States and American citizens living abroad by postage-free mail and online download.

  4. The Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minnesota_Radio...

    The Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network was the world's first radio reading service for the blind; the first on-air date was January 2, 1969. The purpose of a radio reading service is to make current print material available, through the medium of a radio, to those who cannot read it because of a physical condition such as blindness, visual ...

  5. Learning Ally - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_Ally

    Learning Ally, previously named Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D), is a non-profit volunteer organization operating nationwide in the United States. It produces and maintains a library of educational accessible audiobooks for people who cannot effectively read standard print because of visual impairment , dyslexia , or other disabilities .

  6. Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkins_Braille_and...

    A narrator and monitor record a digital-audio book, or "talking book" for the Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library. The recording studio housed within Perkins School for the Blind's Library records and produces digital audio books—local titles for its main collection that are then shared with the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and custom audio ...

  7. Radio reading service - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_reading_service

    The first radio reading service in the United States was the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, started in 1969 by C. Stanley Potter and Robert Watson. After six years of researching the concept, a Kansas philanthropist learned of the Minnesota service, and with their help in 1971 Petey Cerf founded Audio-Reader , the second reading service ...

  1. Ads

    related to: audio books for blind seniors reading comprehension activities