Sources of Accessible Instructional Materials
Sources of Accessible Instructional Materials - Word
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*Note: This list is not exhaustive.
Accessible Media Producers
Commercial Sources:
- Audible or Audible Kids

- Harcourt

- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Education Place

- IntelliTools

- Leap Frog School

- McGraw Hill Education

- Pearson Education

- Penguin Group
- Reading a-z.com

- Scholastic BookFLIX

- Start to Finish Books
from the Don Johnston company
Make Your Own:
- Adobe

- CAST UDL Book Builder

- Dolphin
- Microsoft Reader with Clear Type

- PDF to TXT Conversion Tool (free)
Other Sources:
- Accessible Book Collection

- Accessible Books and e-Texts

- Alex
- a collection of public domain and open-access documents - American Library Association

- Askability Jokes and Stories from the Children's Society

- Audiobooks for Free

- Authorama

- Bartleby.com
- a source of verse, reference and literature - Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE

- Big Books
- a series of online books for children - BookPals
- a streaming video program featuring books read aloud - Books Should Be Free

- Browser Books
- a series of books available to be read by your web browser - Children’s Literature Web Guide

- Create Talking Books with Clicker
- a site that allows you to creat your own books - Creating Talking Books in Power Point
- a site that allows you to creat your own books - Digital Book Index

- e-Books Directory

- E-books for Young Readers from the University of Virginia

- Elegant Solutions and Software Publishing Company (ESSPC) Children’s E-Books

- Fablevision

- Free Classics

- Fullbooks.com

- Genie Books in Powerpoint
- includes decodable books for beginning readers - International Children's Digital Library (ICDL)

- Kiddie Records
- a site devoted to children's records from the 1940's and 1950's - Learn Out Loud

- L’il Fingers Storybooks

- Librivox
or Librivox Children
- Light Up Your Brain

- Lit 2 Go - a collection of stories and poems in MP3 format

- Literal Systems Youth

- Loud Lit - a series of audio recordings -
http://www.loudlit.org/collection_childrens.htm
or http://www.loudlit.org/
- New York City School Adapted Books

- Open Culture Free Audio Books
- Open Source Shakespeare

- Podiobooks

- Project Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.org/
or http://websearch.about.com/od/bestwebsiteoftheday/ig/December-2006-Free-Downloads/Gutenberg-Audio-Books.htm
- Read Print

- Robert Munsch
- books by this author available for online viewing or listening - Sebastian Swan Online Books

- Short Story Radio

- Silly Books

- Slater Software Stories

- Special Education Technology (SET) Symbol and Power Point Books

- Storynory

- Symbol World Stories

- The Internet Public Library

- The Online Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania

- The Rosetta Project - a series of online children's books

- Thought Audio

- Unity Adapted Book Downloads

- University of Virginia's e-book Library

- University of Virginia Library Digital Collections

Braille and Large Print Resources:
- Access 20/20 Braille, Large Print, Audio and Disk Access Services

- Access U.S.A. Alternate Media Access Service
(including Braille, large print, audio, description, electronic media and signage) or call (800) 263-2750 - Alternate Media Exchange Database (AMEX)

- American Foundation for the Blind

- American Printing House for the Blind (APH)
– searchable list for accessible media producers - Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD)

- Digilife Media
, LLC - Huge Print Press

- Large Print Book Club

- Large Print Book Literature Resources

- Library Reproduction Service

- QuikScrybe

- Specialty Publishing and Printing

- TechAdapt, Inc.

- The gh Player - gh
LLC - Vision - Australia

Large Print Dictionaries and Thesaurus:
Please contact the New York State Resource Center for the Visually Impaired (RCVI) for a more complete listing of resources for Braille and/or Large Print. The RCVI can be reached at 585-343-5384.
Other Resources:
- A blog containing a resource list for accessible books
- New York State School for the Blind (NYSSB) Outreach
- Resources for teachers
of learners with severe, intensive or complex special needs
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