[blparent] question

[Deborah Kent Stein]

I'm guessing that the issue is the NIMAS collection at Bookshare, which are
electronic files of textbooks provided by the publishers.  For reasons I
don't fully understand, the NIMAS titles are only available to schools and
teachers.

Debbie



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From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Melissa Ann
Riccobono via blparent
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 2:19 PM
To: 'Dianna'; 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] question

I am assuming since you are on this list that you are a parent with some
type of visual impairment. This means you can join Bookshare yourself and
have access to the books. If your child has a visual impairment or another
type of print disability, then your child could join Bookshare and you could
sign her up as her parent. I believe membership to Bookshare is $50 a year
if you are not currently a student, or if your child does not have a reading
disability. I understand this $50 could be a problem. Yet this amount may
not be insurmountable. Have you asked the school for help in purchasing the
membership? Have you talked to family or friends about donating $5 or $10
each toward this membership? Are there any grandparents or aunts and uncles
who might want to help? If you belong to a church, have you approached
anyone there? Sometimes churches even have discretionary funds they can use
for all types of purposes. Or, have you talked to any Lions clubs or other
service type organizations? They might be willing to fund this. Finally, if
there are home school groups in your area, perhaps they would have ideas or
resources to help you. Since this is a yearly fee, you if you can get the
money this time around, then you might be able to save $5 each month, put it
in an envelope, and you will have the $50 for next year when the time comes.
Or, if you have a scanner, you can scan books for Bookshare they do not
currently have, submit them, and get money off your membership for next
year. You might get money off for proofreading the books as well; can't
remember if that is true or not.
Good luck. I hope some of this is helpful!
Melissa

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From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dianna via
blparent
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 3:03 PM
To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: [blparent] question

I was wondering is there a way for me to get access to school books for my
if my child if I am a learning?  I have taken the plunge and doing the
blended school method.  Some of it is online, in class once a week, and
print at home too.  I can get the books most of them anyway through
Bookshare, but there is a catch.  They can only get gotten by teachers of
students with print disabilities for students.  Is there a way around this
since I am the one mainly teaching my child?  For anyone living near Chicago
she is attending the Chicago virtual charter school, but he head of school
is not as helpful as I think she should try to be and in a way is making her
school look bad by saying I can't do this.  I can and will do this somehow
and some school officials are on my side as well.  She just started.  It is
using k12 curriculum.

 

 

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