Read For The Blind Volunteer

Many network libraries use volunteer readers to record materials for local use some of which is circulated to the larger nls network.

Read for the blind volunteer. Reading for the blind visually impaired and print disabled residents of colorado. Have fun with family and friends and make a difference too. I am presently reading once a week for the internet radio station at the oklahoma library for the blind. The audition includes a 100 word pronunciation test and several brief excerpts of reading from newspapers and magazines.

Clients provide their own reading materials and sessions last for two hours. Directory of producers of accessible reading materials may list other organizations that use volunteer narrators. Reading materials cover a wide range of topics and support the client s academic employment leisure or personal reading needs. Volunteers can either record from home or at our sacramento ca location in our studio.

You may contact a network library to see if they have current openings for volunteer narrators. We re following the government s public health guidance and ensuring we can continue to offer support for blind and partially sighted people all face to face volunteering is suspended to ensure that you remain safe and well. How to volunteer to read. You and your sonorous voice are needed to read to the blind in your community.

For those who are blind losing vision or can t read for a different reason audio programming is a vital component of staying. Before you are eligible to become a volunteer broadcaster for gatewave you must take and pass our audition for reading aloud. When you join the learning ally volunteer nation you help us change the lives of struggling readers forever. If you are available during the earlier part of the day you could read the daily paper if not perhaps you can be a friendly visitor after work hours or on the weekend.

Several volunteer readers read for an hour or so once a week from various newspapers around the state concentrating on stories of human interest etc. The same books used in classrooms across the country as well as books being read for enjoyment are placed in the hands of our volunteers. Ainc relies on our dedicated team of volunteers to read and record print materials in our recording studios. That might not be covered in the local daily newspaper or aired on tv and radio.

Volunteers read to adults who are blind or visually impaired. The reading test takes about 15 minutes. Six opportunities exist for readers friendly visitors or mail assistants to help their neighbors. We re exploring ways that you might be able to volunteer from home.

Our audiobooks benefit blind visually impaired students and students with dyslexia or specific learning disability. Access news is a reading service that allows volunteers to record current news magazines circulars and other items of interest so that people who are blind low vision or cannot read conventional print can listen to these publications through the telephone.