International Association of
Audio Information Services It is an organization of services that provide audio
access to information for people who are print disabled (blind, visually impaired,
learning disabled or physically disabled). Some of these services are affiliated with
state or voluntary agencies serving people who are print disabled. Others are independent
non-profit agencies. Many are associated with public radio stations, commercial FM
stations, colleges, universities or libraries. Radio Reading Services can be found
throughout the United States as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
Audio-Reader - Reading Radio Kansas The
Kansas Audio-Reader Network exists to provide print-disabled citizens with access to the
printed word and other information via electronic media and other technologies.
Audio-Reader's services are provided to enable print-disabled persons the opportunity to
live their lives with the greatest possible personal independence.
Central Ohio Radio Reading Service
Central Ohio Radio Reading Service (CORRS) broadcasts daily to individuals with visual,
physical and/or learning disabilities. Broadcasts may be heard Within a fifty mile radius
of Columbus on a receiver obtained from CORRS In Central Ohio on Coaxial Cable 89.5 FM or
Warner Cable Community Channels 63 or 65.
EMS Beneficiary Newsletter
Radio reading services available in New York State are listed. Radio reading services
provide immediate and convenient access to printed material for thousands of people who
are visually impaired. They combine the depth and details of print with the immediacy of
radio.Radio reading services help people who are visually impaired combat the isolation
that often results from a disability. They also heighten the listener's potential to live
an independent and productive life. Programming is varied and includes such publications
as local newspapers, national magazines, popular books, the New York Times, and the Wall
Street Journal. "Medicare Cares" is sent to each of the reading services every
two months.
Nebraska Educational Telecommunications
The Radio Talking Book Network (RTBN) is a nonprofit Omaha-based organization offering a
radio reading service for the visually-impaired and elderly. It is transmitted statewide
on Nebraska ETV Network's second audio program channel (SAP). RTBN operates through a
special radio receiver available without charge from RTBN and through SAP-equipped
televisions and VCRs. RTBN broadcasts selected news and features from Nebraska newspapers
and a variety of information from current magazines, including business news, sports,
fashion, health and medicine.
Radio Information Service Illinois
WUIS/WIPA,
the public radio station at the University of Illinois at Springfield provides an
information service for people who are print disabled (blind, visually impaired, learning
disabled and physically disabled). Eligible individuals living in central and west central
Illinois may apply for the Radio Information Service. The Radio Information Service is
broadcast on a closed circuit sideband channel on WUIS/WIPA's main signal that can be
heard on a special radio called a sideband receiver. The receivers are provided at no
cost.
WUFT-FM Radio Reading Service Gainesville
Florida Area
The Reading Service originates from the
College of Journalism and Communications in Weimer Hall on the University of Florida
Campus in Gainesville, Florida. The service began broadcasting to 30 people in 1992. In
the future the service might be available on Channel 5's SAP channel. More on that in the
future. If you know of someone who lives within the 60 mile radius of Gainesville,
they should be able to pick up the signal.
Newsline in Connecticut
NEWSLINE FOR THE BLIND NETWOR"Trademark": A Nationwide Newspaper Service for
the Blind - Every morning many people throughout the United States start the
day with a cup of coffee and the morning newspaper. They do, that is, unless they are
blind or severely visually impaired. The National Federation of the Blind has initiated a
project which gives promise of making newspapers available on a regular basis to the blind
of the nation.
