Read For The Blind Volunteer

Volunteers read to adults who are blind or visually impaired.

Read for the blind volunteer.

Ainc relies on our dedicated team of volunteers to read and record print materials in our recording studios. Reading for the blind visually impaired and print disabled residents of colorado. Directory of producers of accessible reading materials may list other organizations that use volunteer narrators. The audition includes a 100 word pronunciation test and several brief excerpts of reading from newspapers and magazines.

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. When you join the learning ally volunteer nation you help us change the lives of struggling readers forever. You may contact a network library to see if they have current openings for volunteer narrators. We re exploring ways that you might be able to volunteer from home.

I am presently reading once a week for the internet radio station at the oklahoma library for the blind. Before you are eligible to become a volunteer broadcaster for gatewave you must take and pass our audition for reading aloud. You and your sonorous voice are needed to read to the blind in your community. Volunteers must be able to speak clearly and read at a college level.

For those who are blind losing vision or can t read for a different reason audio programming is a vital component of staying. Clients provide their own reading materials and sessions last for two hours. That might not be covered in the local daily newspaper or aired on tv and radio. Volunteers can either record from home or at our sacramento ca location in our studio.

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. How to volunteer to read. We ll do our best to keep you up to date with our progress with involving volunteers in our work. Volunteer to make audiobooks with learning ally.

The reading test takes about 15 minutes. Reading materials cover a wide range of topics and support the client s academic employment leisure or personal reading needs. Many network libraries use volunteer readers to record materials for local use some of which is circulated to the larger nls network. 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.

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. 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.