[blindkid] Free Braille Books-Where to go to get Books

[Dr. Denise M Robinson]

 Free Braille Books-Where to go to get
Books<http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/2011/10/free-braille-books-where-to-go-to-get.html>
 There are many options when it comes to finding and getting braille books.

For Free Braille books, go to Seedlings Braille Books for
Children<http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/www.seedlings.org>
They offer 2 Free braille books per year through their Angel program.
Otherwise they offer very low cost braille books for your children.

If you want to create your own braille or audio books, you can download
books from bookshare.org, where school children can sign up for free.
Bookshare offers thousands of books at your fingertips. You can download
Victor Reader Soft, from their site, which is free audio software. When you
download your books, you will download them in daisy format to be played on
Victor Reader Soft right from your computer. Sign up and get your child
registered.

Bookshare <http://www.bookshare.org/> offers braille book downloads also. If
you have braille software such as Duxbury Braille Translation
software<http://www.duxburysystems.com/>you can download books in the
.brf format and have them open in braille.
Combine this with a braille display and your child can read the book from
their computer. If they are blessed with an adaptive laptop such as a Braille
Note<http://www.humanware.com/en-usa/products/blindness/braillenotes/_details/id_236/braillenote_apex_qt_32.html>then
the file can be saved to a thumb drive and loaded onto the Braille
Note, or the Braille Note can go online and download it directly from
Bookshare and can be read in the bookreader of the Braille Note.

National Braille
Press<http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/publications/downloads.html>also
offers books, some for purchase and others for free.

But never forget about your state book and braille library. This is a free
book loan program in your state for braille and audio books. For more books
than you can dream of, go to the largest braille library source in the
country: Utah State Library for the Blind and
Disabled<http://blindlibrary.utah.gov/>
If you go there, they will have a host of other information and where to go
and get more braille books and materials. Your state library can help you
get books from this resource if you do not happen to live in the loan area
for books from them.

Web Braille <http://www.loc.gov/nls/> is the National Library of Congress
loaded with thousands of braille books for download also. When you sign up
for services you will go to their download section of Braille
Books<http://www.loc.gov/nls/braille>which will require you to have a
username and password. There you will find
a plethora and myriad of braille books at your fingers tips also.

So here are a few options to get you going. For more information on educating
your child based on experience and years of
education<http://www.yourtechvision.com/>,
visit yourtechvision.com and ask questions that you need answers too.

-- 
Denise

Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D.
CEO, TechVision
Specialist in blind technology/teaching/training
Email:  yourtechvision at gmail.com <deniserob at gmail.com>
Website with hundreds of lessons: yourtechvision.com