Script Talk For The Blind

A pleasant natural sounding voice speaks all the information.

Script talk for the blind. Whether your patients require access to vital prescription information in large print braille or even audible output you will find the solution in one easy to us. Script talk is a free program that is set up by envisions america through cooperation with your pharmacy. In honor of medication safety awareness for the blind a week i put together a video showing off two options for accessible prescription bottles. Place the container on the script talk station reader and hear the label information spoken aloud.

Envision america can be reached at 1 800 890 1180. Scriptalk station is a prescription reader device. Members of express scripts interested in receiving prescriptions with the talking labels should contact envision america makers of the scriptalk program. Scriptability prescription accessibility system helps you meet the needs of your blind visually impaired or print impaired customers.

According to the afb access to drug labels survey report the print impaired community is particularly at risk for at home medication errors such as swallowing the wrong pill missing a refill date or ingesting expired medications prescription labels contain vital information about our medications and yet because that information is often printed on a rigid curved surface and usually in. It contains the same data that is on the printed label. Mate the talking barcode reader and scriptability which includes braille large print and talking prescription labels. Our pharmacy will attach a small electronic tag or talking label to your prescription container.

Simply press a button and place the special scriptalk talking label over the reader. A program called script talk provided by the organization called envisions america allows a vision impaired blind person to read the information printed on a pill bottle using a bar code reader device. Scriptability is a suite of products designed to help pharmacists meet the needs of their blind visually impaired or print impaired patients. Scriptalk is a newer technology that s been developed to help people that are legally blind or low vision that can t read their prescription bottles craig ellis with east texas lighthouse.

Scriptalk talking labels scriptalk prescription reader large print labels and braille labels with translation into 17 languages.