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The NLS was established by an act of Congress in 1931, and was amended in 1934 to include sound recordings (talking books). The program was expanded in 1952 to include blind children, in 1962 to include music materials, and in 1966 to include individuals with physical impairments that prevent the reading of standard print. [ 6 ]
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 ...
Produced by Texas Instruments, the Magic Wand Reader (introduced in 1982 as the Magic Wand Speaking Reader [1]) was an educational device that used a handheld wand that one would slide over "Talking Tracks" in order to read along with educational books. Bill Cosby was initially a spokesman for this device.
Here are 50 books Texas parents have asked school districts to ban, nearly all of which deal with racism, sexuality
The Talking Books service also hosts a book club and publishes a regular blog discussing what books are available or popular with the service. In 2022, the program partnered with the Ohio Library for the Blind to expand its collections through the use of the Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) service and mobile app.
Based on historical events that occurred on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, the novel traces the fortunes of the Kid, a 14-year-old who ends up in a macabre world where Native Americans are ...
A viral Feb. 1 tweet that garnered at least 16,100 retweets and 65,800 likes by Australian user @AnthCondon said, "Books banned in Texas include 1984, Maus, and The Handmaid's Tale, but not Mein ...
The Florida Bureau of Braille and Talking Books Library is the largest library of its kind within the United States. [1] It is part of the system of libraries of the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled. It offers a wide variety of material with over 2.4 million items available in braille and audio format.