Volunteers are the core of our ability to deliver service.
Reading for the blind volunteer.
The talking books are circulated by the ohio library for the blind and physically disabled in cleveland.
Funding is provided by a combination of federal state and local funds.
Six opportunities exist for readers friendly visitors or mail assistants to help their neighbors.
You and your sonorous voice are needed to read to the blind in your community.
Volunteers can either record from home or at our sacramento ca location in our studio.
Voicecorps was founded as corrs the central ohio radio reading service by irwin hott fred allemeier and stanley doran each of whom were blind.
Directory of producers of accessible reading materials may list other organizations that use volunteer narrators.
Our first day on the air was november 17 1975.
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.
There is no doubt that some loss of audio quality will occur under these less than ideal circumstances.
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.
Until the early 1970 s there was no good way for people who were blind to access the contents of the daily newspaper.
You may contact a network library to see if they have current openings for volunteer narrators.