Volunteer Reading For The Blind
While much of our face to face volunteering is suspended due to coronavirus to keep our volunteers safe and well we have restarted some activities where safe to do so and are keeping this under review.
Volunteer reading for the blind. About reading association for the blind. I am presently reading once a week for the internet radio station at the oklahoma library for the blind. We need your help.
Clients provide their own reading materials and sessions last for two hours. Volunteers read to adults who are blind or visually impaired. 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.
Directory of producers of accessible reading materials may list other organizations that use volunteer narrators. Reading materials cover a wide range of topics and support the client s academic employment leisure or personal reading needs. Volunteers can either record from home or at our sacramento ca location in our studio.
Our volunteer opportunities are as follows. 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. Volunteer opportunities the metropolitan washington ear is a non profit organization that provides reading services for the blind visually impaired and print disabled of the washington area.
You and your sonorous voice are needed to read to the blind in your community. Reading blind aid society was formed in 1883 and then changed to reading association for the blind in 1926 and has supported the sight impaired people of reading ever since. Volunteers must be able to speak clearly and read at a college level.
That might not be covered in the local daily newspaper or aired on tv and radio. If you have a desire to read for the blind there are a variety of opportunities for volunteers either to read in person or to record materials for the blind to listen to at their leisure. Volunteering hub for our current volunteers we re following the government s public health guidance and ensuring we can continue to offer support for blind and partially sighted people.
We are currently seeking volunteers. To find such opportunities visit a local library university school support centre or local organisation that serves the blind population. You may contact a network library to see if they have current openings for volunteer narrators.
The reading test takes about 15 minutes. Many network libraries use volunteer readers to record materials for local use some of which is circulated to the larger nls network. Six opportunities exist for readers friendly visitors or mail assistants to help their neighbors.
If you wish to volunteer for any of these positions please contact claire piercy on 0118 957 2960 or email. How to volunteer to read.
