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Free Audiobooks for Students with Dyslexia

S.B.  2075  amends the  Education  Code to require a school district to notify certain parents or guardians of a program providing students with reading disabilities the ability to borrow audiobooks free of charge.

 

Bookshare   https://www.bookshare.org/cms/

Bookshare is an accessible online library which has over 500,000 titles available to individuals with print disabilities.

 

Learning Ally          https://learningally.org/
Learning Ally has 80,000 + human-narrated audio books available to individuals with print disabilities. The materials can be delivered through internet downloads and accessed using various mainstream and assistive technology devices.

 

Talking Book Program (TBP)           https://www.tsl.texas.gov/tbp/index.html

The Talking Book Program (TBP) provides free library services to qualifying Texans with visual, physical, or reading disabilities. TBP is part of the National Library Service to the Blind and Print Disabled, a program administered by the Library of Congress. The TBP collection consists of more than 100,000 titles, including hundreds of titles in Spanish, and some in French, German, Russian, and other languages.