ATTACHMENT 2
Alternate Format Textbook and Educational Materials ResourcesNYS Resource Center for Visually Impaired
2A Richmond Avenue
Batavia, NY 14020
Phone: (585) 343-8100
Fax: (585) 343-3711
Email:
ldesanti@mail.nysed.govThe Resource Center for Visually Impaired (RC) includes a special library, which circulates large print and Braille textbooks and literature, adapted assessments and curricula, descriptive (voice captioned) videos for students, educational videos, professional journals and other reference materials on behalf of students who are blind or visually impaired, including those with multiple disabilities. Specialized instructional materials produced by the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) are provided to teachers and other service providers to enable them to better serve their students. Braille and large print books, as well as some NYS tests, can be borrowed for student use.
Schools should first contact the RC when they need to obtain instructional materials in an alternative format. The RC will first check the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) LOUIS database for availability of a text in an alternative format. If a book is not available from APH and has not been enlarged or converted to Braille by another source, RC staff will research other resources to identify for schools another source to obtain the instructional materials in the needed alternative format. These materials are on loan for the school year unless the student needs them again the following year.
Attached is a list of other sources to which the Resource Center may refer schools to obtain the selected materials in the alternative formats needed.
| Universal Learning Center |
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Skip Stahl |
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Phone: (978) 531-8555 |
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e-mail: sstahl@cast.org |
The Universal Learning Center (ULC) is a service of the National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum (CAST) (
www.cast.org). The ULC provides a web-based researchable directory of digital versions of traditional curriculum textbooks for students with a large range of learning needs, including students with dyslexia or students with limited physical mobility.Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D)
http://www.rfbd.org All ages. RFB&D is considered the nation’s leading educational lending library of academic and professional textbooks on audiotape from elementary through post-graduate and professional levels. Anyone with a documented disability, including a visual impairment, learning disability or other physical disability which makes reading standard print difficult is eligible to use RFB&D’s taped textbooks. Membership is required to access the library.
| NYS Talking
Books and Braille Library (Upstate New York) http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/talk.htm Cultural Education Center Albany, N.Y. 12230 1-800-342-3688 |
National
Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped http://www.loc.gov/nls Library of Congress (202) 707-5100 |
| Andrew Heiskell
Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (New York City) http://www.nypl.org/branch/central_units/ lb/LB.html 40 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011-4211 (212) 206-5400 or (212) 206-5425 |
Braille and
Talking Books Libraries http://www.loc.gov/nls/site.html All ages. Regional and subregional libraries of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS/BPH), Library of Congress. Free of cost to eligible members. Services include books in Braille and recorded formats, magazines, equipment on loan, catalogs, bibliographies, music materials, and educational print and audiovisual materials about blindness, disability, and rehabilitation. These materials are generally for pleasure reading (i.e., not textbooks). |
| Talking Books
Plus (Suffolk County) http://www.suffolk.lib.ny.us/tbp Outreach Services, Suffolk Cooperative Library System 627 North Sunrise Road Bellport, NY 11713 (516) 286-1600 or (516) 286-4685 |
Talking Books
(Nassau County) Email: nls@lilrc.org Nassau Library System 900 Jerusalem Avenue Uniondale, NY 11553 (516) 292-8920 |
| Talking Tapes
(Textbooks on Tape) http://www.talkingtapes.org/default.asp All ages. A nonprofit organization that provides textbooks on audiotape for individuals from elementary through post-graduate school. Services provided to schools, teachers, parents, and students. School districts or individuals may apply for services. Minimal cost per item. |
Talking Book
Publishers, Inc. 1055 West Arizona Avenue Denver, CO 80223 (303) 778-8606 |
Large Print Text
| R.R. Bowker 630 Central Ave. New Providence, NJ 07974 (888) BOWKER2 or (888) 269-5372 E-mail: info@bowker.com |
Educational Services Center
for the Visually Handicapped David Cederstrom 1700 West State Street Janesville, WI 53546 (608) 758-6146 |
| Karen Barrett Helen Keller Braille Library One Helen Keller Way Hempstead, NY 11550 (516) 485-1234 ext.246 Fax: (516) 538-6785 |
Prose and Cons Braille Unit Dominic Inzodda 800 Pioneer Blvd. Lincoln, NE 68502 (402) 471-3161 x3373 |
| InfoCon, Inc - Large Print Gordon Rawlins 2423 W. March Lane, Suite 200 Stockton, CA 95207 (800) 544-4551 or (209) 478-7075 Fax: (209) 478-7074 |
Library Reproduction Service
(LRS) The Microfilm Company of California 1977 S. Los Angeles Street Los Angeles, CA 90011 (213) 749-2463 |
| Thorndike/G.K. Hall Nicole Buker P.O. Box 159 Thorndike, ME 04986 (207) 948-2962 x212, 221 |
Specialty Publishing &
Printing Bruce or Scott Howard P.O. Box 414 Quitman, MS 39355 (888) 697-3768 |
| MATR - Michigan's Assistive
Technology Resource 1023 S. U.S. 27 St. Johns, MI 48879-2423 (989) 224-0333 (800) 274-7426 |
Straight Literary Braille Text
:| John Cosh, Braille
Coordinator Eastern Correction Facility P.O. Box 338, Institution Drive Napanoch, NY 12458 (845) 647-7400 Fax: (845) 647-9895 |
Florida Instructional
Materials Center Lois Langham, Judy Trudelle 5002 N. Lois Avenue Tampa, FL 33614 (813) 872-5281 Fax: (813) 872-5284 E-mail: llangham@fimcvi.org |
| Karen Barrett Helen Keller Braille Library One Helen Keller Way Hempstead, NY 11550 (516) 485-1234 ext. 246 Fax: (516) 538-6785 |
oundation for Blind Children Inge Durre 1235 E. Harmont Phoenix, AZ 85020 (602) 678-5810 E-mail: idurre@the-FBC.org |
| Nancy Hester Mohawk Valley Braille Transcribers Central Assoc. for the Blind and Visually Impaired 507 Kent Street Utica, NY 13501 (315) 797-2233 |
Lehigh Valley Braille Guild Helen Klitsch 614 North 13th Street Allentown, PA 18102 (610) 559-0962 Fax: (610) 433-4856 |
| Braille Group of Buffalo Jill Pariso, Sue Kahn 4660 Sheridan Drive Buffalo, NY 14221 (716) 689-1560 or (716) 633-8877 E-Mail: brlgrp@juno.com |
MATR - Michigan's Assistive
Technology Resource 1023 S. U.S. 27 St. Johns, MI 48879-2423 (989) 224-0333 or (800) 274-7426 |
| Braille Institute of America (Braille and Recordings) Lori Shilling (Recordings) Carol Jimenez (Braille) 741 North Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90029 (323) 663-1111 Fax: (323) 663-2332 |
Metrolina Association for
the Blind Robert Scheffel 704 Louise Avenue Charlotte, NC 28204 (704) 372-3870 (800) 926-5466 x121, 123 |
| Johanna Bureau for the Blind Edith Weiner 8 S. Michigan Avenue, Suite 300 Chicago, IL 60603-3305 (312) 332-6076 |
Metropolitan New Jersey
Chapter Jane Bente 2 Gardner Road Fairfield, NJ 07004 (973) 575-0880 ex. 336 See also complete listing at: http://www.aph.org/names.txt |
| National Braille Press
Education Services c/o Eileen Curran 88 St. Stephen Street Boston, MA 02115 (617) 266-6160 x17 |
Educational Services Center
for the Visually Handicapped David Cederstrom 1700 West State Street Janesville, WI 53546 (608) 758-6146 |
| PaTTAN Production Services Julie Breneman 6340 Flank Drive, Suite 600 Harrisburg, PA 17112-2764 (717) 541-4960 ex. 3329 |
Prose and Cons Braille Unit Dominic Inzodda 800 Pioneer Blvd. Lincoln, NE 68502 (402) 471-3161 x3373 |
| Seedlings, Braille Books for
Children Debra J. Bonde P.O. Box 51924 Livonia, MI 48151-5924 (734) 427-8552 or (800) 777-8552 |
West Virginia Braille
Program Sheila Waldron Simmons P.O. Box 1 Huttonsville, WV 26273 (304) 335-2291 ex. 276 |
Nemeth Code and Tactile Graphics Production and Support
:| American Printing House for
the Blind, Inc. P.O. Box 6085 Louisville, KY 40206-0085 (800) 223-1839 Fax: (502) 899-2274 E-mail: info@aph.org Website: http://www.aph.org/ Math textbooks; also check the LOUIS database |
ghBraille Dave Schleppenbach, President 3000 Kent Ave. Suite E2-201 West Lafayette, IN 47906 (765) 775-3776 E-mail: info@ghbraille.com Website: http://www.ghbraille.com Math and science textbooks in Braille, tactile graphics, other products and services. |
| Anamosa Braille Center Rhonda Sturtz 406 N. High Street Anamosa, IA 52205-0010 (319) 462-3507 ext. 235 |
National Braille
Association, Inc. 3 Townline Circle Rochester, NY 14623-2513 (585) 427-8260 Fax (585) 427-0263 Help-Line: (800) 244-5797 E-mail: nbaoffice@compuserve.com Website: http://www.nationalbraille.org/ Transcriber referral and support; includes publications and workshops on Nemeth Code, tactile Graphics, and Nemeth translation software. |
| Computers to Help People John J. Boyer, Executive Director 825 East Johnson Street Madison, WI 53703 (608) 257-5917 Fax: (608) 257-3480 E-mail: chpi@execpc.com Website: http://www.chpi.org |
National Braille Press Inc. 88 St. Stephen Street Boston, MA 02115 (800) 548-7323 Fax (617) 437-0456 E-mail: orders@nbp.org Website: http://www.nbp.org/ Math textbooks |
| The Technical Braille Center Region 20 Education Service Center Braille Department Robert D. Walling, Coordinator 1314 Hines Avenue San Antonio, TX 78208-1899 (800) 514-9310 Fax: (210) 370-5696 E-mail: rwalling@tenet.edu Producer of Nemeth Code and tactile graphics materials including textbooks. |
Visual Aid Volunteers Elizabeth C. Gross, Chairperson 617 State Street Garland, TX 75040 (214) 272-1615 E-mail: Txbraille@aol.com Producer of Nemeth Code and tactile graphics materials including textbooks. |
| National Library Service for
the Blind and Physically Handicapped Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20542 (202) 707-9275 or (202) 707-5100, or (800) 424-8567 Fax: (202) 707-0712 E-mail: nls@loc.gov Website: http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/nls/ Administers a free library program of Braille and recorded materials circulated to eligible borrowers through a network of cooperating libraries. Can also supply a booklet listing others willing to Braille materials. |
Region IV Education Service
Center Computer Braille Center Diane Spence, Coordinator 7145 West Tidwell Houston, TX 77092-2096 (713) 744-8144 Fax: (713) 744-8148 E-mail: dspence@esc4.net Producer of Nemeth Code and tactile graphics materials including textbooks and standardized assessments. |
Braille Translation Software Programs
(for worksheets, reviews, tests, and other math materials):| MacKichan Software, Inc. 600 Ericksen, Suite 300 Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 (877)SCI-NOTE Fax: (206) 780-2857 E-mail: sales@mackichan.com Website: http://www.mackichan.com |
Accessible to Visually
Impaired Mathematics Students (MAVIS) Chris Weaver, MAVIS Program New Mexico State University Math Department MSC 3MB P.O. Box 30001 Las Cruces, NM 88003 (505) 646-1064 Fax: (505) 646-1064 Email: chrweave@nmsu.edu Website: http://www.nmsu.edu/~mavis Nemeth Code filter that translates Scientific Notebook documents containing mathematics to Nemeth Code. |
| DBT WIN 10.3 (best used with
Scientific Notebook) or MegaDots from: Duxbury Systems, Inc. 435 King St. P.O. Box 1504 Littleton, MA 01460 (978) 692-3000 Fax: (978) 486-9712 Website: http://www.duxburysystems.com Email for general inquiries: info@duxsys.com Email for technical support: support@duxsys.com Email to Webmaster: duxbury@world.std.com |
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