Read For The Blind Volunteer

Volunteers must be able to speak clearly and read at a college level.

Read for the blind volunteer.

Reading for the blind visually impaired and print disabled residents of colorado. 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. How to volunteer to read. Volunteers read to adults who are blind or visually impaired.

We re exploring ways that you might be able to volunteer from home. You and your sonorous voice are needed to read to the blind in your community. Have fun with family and friends and make a difference too. Many network libraries use volunteer readers to record materials for local use some of which is circulated to the larger nls network.

Ainc relies on our dedicated team of volunteers to read and record print materials in our recording studios. 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. The reading test takes about 15 minutes. Volunteers can either record from home or at our sacramento ca location in our studio.

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. We ll do our best to keep you up to date with our progress with involving volunteers in our work. Clients provide their own reading materials and sessions last for two hours. Our audiobooks benefit blind visually impaired students and students with dyslexia or specific learning disability.

That might not be covered in the local daily newspaper or aired on tv and radio. You may contact a network library to see if they have current openings for volunteer narrators. I am presently reading once a week for the internet radio station at the oklahoma library for the blind. When you join the learning ally volunteer nation you help us change the lives of struggling readers forever.

For those who are blind losing vision or can t read for a different reason audio programming is a vital component of staying. Volunteer to make audiobooks with learning ally. 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. Before you are eligible to become a volunteer broadcaster for gatewave you must take and pass our audition for reading aloud.

Six opportunities exist for readers friendly visitors or mail assistants to help their neighbors. The audition includes a 100 word pronunciation test and several brief excerpts of reading from newspapers and magazines.