>Disabilities...
>Students with visual impairments or severe learning disabilities will
have
>unprecedented access to the contents of textbooks with the nationwide
>release (September 3, 2002) of digitally recorded textbooks on CD from
>Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic(R) (RFB&D(R)). (Photo:
>
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020815/NYFNSQ08 )
An
inaugural
>collection of 6,000 digitally recorded educational titles, ranging from
>"Harry Potter" to "Systems of Psychotherapy: a Transtheoretical
Analysis,"
>will be added to RFB&D's unique collection of 91,000 accessible
textbooks -
>the largest collection of its kind in the world. For more than 50
>years, RFB&D, a nonprofit organization, has been the nation's largest
>educational library for students who are visually impaired or who have
>learning disabilities such as dyslexia. "RFB&D's AudioPlus(TM)
>digitally recorded textbooks are a long-awaited innovation in reading
>technology for people with disabilities who cannot read standard print
>effectively," says RFB&D President & CEO Richard O. Scribner. "They
level
>the playing field for students with disabilities because they offer
>functionalities that significantly enhance the ability to study and
>research." RFB&D's AudioPlus books are different from other
accessible
>reading materials because they are recorded in human voice by
volunteers
>who are experts in the subject areas they read. RFB&D's books stand
apart
>because they are not scanned digitally to be played back in synthetic
>speech, which can often distort or mispronounce scientific, foreign and
>complex terminologies. To listen to RFB&D's AudioPlus textbooks,
>students need a portable CD player equipped to play RFB&D's books or a
>standard multimedia computer equipped with a CD-ROM drive and
specialized
>software. Playback hardware and software will be available through
RFB&D
>for nonprofit sale. Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind person to
summit
>Mount Everest, is an enthusiastic supporter of digitally recorded
textbooks
>from RFB&D. "I embrace the technology. It's a system that will help
>people be more efficient and more productive, and blind people
definitely
>need every advantage." RFB&D's digitally recorded textbooks on CD
allow
>instant access to any page, chapter or subheading in a book with the
touch
>of a button - there is no need to fast-forward through and count
embedded
>beep tones as is done with books recorded on analog cassette tape.
The
>CDs hold more than 40 hours of recorded material. Therefore, the
contents
>of a standard textbook, which requires eight to 12 RFB&D cassettes,
will
>now fit onto a single CD. Portability, ease of navigation and
bookmarking
>capabilities make digitally recorded textbooks from RFB&D more
effective
>study tools for students with print disabilities. For more
information
>about RFB&D's AudioPlus digitally recorded textbooks, call RFB&D at
>866-RFBD-585 or visit RFB&D's award-winning accessible website at
>
www.rfbd.org/ap.htm
>
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