Additional Resources for the Blind and Vision Impaired
Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired
State agency that provides a range of services for the blind and
vision impaired. http://www.vdbvi.org/Services.htm
Staunton Regional Office
Address:
1076 Jefferson Highway
Staunton, VA 24401
Contact:
Debby Austin
Deborah.Austin@dbvi.virginia.gov
Phone:
(540) 332-7733 Type: Office Fax
(540) 332-7729 Type: Office Voice/TTY
(800) 622-2155 Type: Toll Free Voice
Free Audio Newspaper and Magazine Services
Valley Voice
Valley Voice provides access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to local daily and weekly area newspapers including the Waynesboro News Virginian, the Staunton News Leader and Charlottesville papers, The Daily Progress, C-ville and The Hook. It can be accessed through public access stations on cable TV or through Subcarrier Band radios, that are loaned out to medically qualified persons. http://www.wmra.org/voicecable.html , 1-540-568-3811 , 1-800-677-9672 , http://www.jmu.edu/wmra.voice
NFB-NEWSLINE®
NFB-NEWSLINE®, a service of the National Federation of the Blind, just added its 300th publication. The service handles thousands of phone calls each day for individuals across the country who can access daily newspapers and magazines using a standard touch-tone telephone. The toll-free centralized call-in center provides service on demand to any subscriber. This also enables those who cannot read conventional print to have access to all content offered on NFB-NEWSLINE® when traveling throughout the United States twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. www.nfb.org/nfb/Newspapers_by_Phone.asp Information at 1-866-504-7300.
Washington Ear
This service enables visually and physically disabled individuals to
"read" (hear) the morning paper, yesterday's paper and selected other
publications - any time of day or night, seven days a week. Using only
their own touch-tone telephones, they can access all of the available
publications, whenever they choose to do so. Newspapers are the
Washington Post and USA Today and magazines include Time and People
Magazine.
With their touch-tone telephones, callers can:
- Choose dozens of categories
- Go from article to article
- Skip and scan
- Jump forward and backward
- Browse much as sighted people do
- Control the speed of volunteer readers' recorded voices
- Control the volume of the recorded voices
Individual ID numbers allow access only to eligible callers. There is free telephone access throughout Maryland, DC and Virginia. www.washear.org. 1-301-681-6636, Information@washear.org
Newspapers for the Blind
Newspapers for the Blind provides access to the blind and severely hearing impaired to a range of newspapers in the US, such as the Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times and international newspapers in London, Jerusalem, Singapore and Australia. Contact@NewspapersForTheBlind.ORG
Textbooks
Textbooks are not included in the NLS talking-book and braille program. However, they are available from the following sources:
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D)
A private, nonprofit organization, provides recorded educational books and related library services to people with print disabilities. Prospective borrowers must register with RFB&D. Textbooks in large print may be purchased from American Printing House for the Blind (APH) and Library Reproduction Service. Textbooks in braille may be purchased from APH and the National Braille Association (NBA). The Virginia Accessible Instructional Materials Center (AIM-VA), part of the Helen A. Kellar Institute for Human disAbilities at George Mason University, will produce and deliver accessible instructional materials for Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) in Virginia who have students with an IEP or 504 Plan indicating a need for alternate formats of printed materials.
The addresses are as follows:
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
3500 Remson Court
Charlottesville, VA 22901
Phone: 434-326-4956
www.rfbd.org
American Printing House for the Blind
1839 Frankfort Avenue
Louisville, KY 40206
800-223-1839
info@aph.org
www.aph.org
Library Reproduction Service
14214 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90061
800-255-5002
lrsprint@aol.com
www.lrs-largeprint.com/home.html
National Braille Association
Braille Materials Production Center
Three Townline Circle
Rochester, NY 14623-2513
(585) 427-8260
nbaoffice@nationalbraille.org
www.nationalbraille.org
Aim-Virginia (Accessible Instructional Materials – Virginia)
Available to Teachers who serve students with
disabilities:
AIM-VA Help Desk
Accessible Instructional Materials-Virginia
The Kellar Institute for Human disAbilities
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MS 1A8
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
866-926-1879
Phone: 703-993-5149
Fax: 703-993-3681
aimva@gmu.edu
