Devices improve reading

An event on Thursday, Sept. 14 will help raise awareness on special media for blind and print-disabled individuals.

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September 8, 2023 - 9:01 AM

Talking books are free, easy to access and to use for people who find reading print a challenge. Books or magazines are digitized on a cartridge which is inserted into a small player, shown here by Cindy Chalker, special needs consultant for the Southeast Kansas Library System. Courtesy photo

There’s a world of devices and special media for blind and print-disabled individuals, said Cynthia Chalker, special needs consultant for the Southeast Kansas Library System based in Iola. 

Chalker will introduce these and other aids and services and tell how to access them at 7 p.m., Thursday, at the Iola Public Library.

Anyone who has difficulty reading printed material is encouraged to attend. Print disability may be perceptual, physical or visual, Chalker explained.

Reasons vary but may include a learning disability such as dyslexia, brain injury or…

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