Reading For The Blind Volunteer

Voicecorps was founded as corrs the central ohio radio reading service by irwin hott fred allemeier and stanley doran each of whom were blind.

Reading for the blind volunteer.

To maintain service and to keep these dedicated men and women safe we re transitioning from in studio readings by volunteers to at home recordings and live readings via telephone. You and your sonorous voice are needed to read to the blind in your community. Many network libraries use volunteer readers to record materials for local use some of which is circulated to the larger nls network. The talking books are circulated by the ohio library for the blind and physically disabled in cleveland.

Six opportunities exist for readers friendly visitors or mail assistants to help their neighbors. Directory of producers of accessible reading materials may list other organizations that use volunteer narrators. You may contact a network library to see if they have current openings for volunteer narrators. Volunteers are the core of our ability to deliver service.

Our first day on the air was november 17 1975. 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. Volunteers can either record from home or at our sacramento ca location in our studio. Until the early 1970 s there was no good way for people who were blind to access the contents of the daily newspaper.

A network of volunteer repair persons work with the staff of the talking book program to keep the equipment in good condition.