Recorded and Braille Textbooks: Everything the Blind Student Needs to Know

Abstract

Recording for the Blind, Inc., provides tape recorded textbooks to blind high school and college students and others by either making a copy of one of the 23,000 titles already recorded and located in its Master Tape Library or by having it recorded at one of its 23 recording units. Textbooks in braille are prepared by certified volunteer transcribers all over the country. Master copies of over 1,100 textbooks, from which thermoform duplicates can be made, are located in the Braille Book Bank of the National Braille Association. Nearly 200 scientific and mathematical tables in braille are available through the Association's Braille Technical Tables Bank. The Instructional Materials Reference Center maintains a Central Catalog of braille books and their location in various other depositories. Full instructions for the use of these various services are included in this two-part article.