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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">I posted the below email on the OASL listserv. The information may be of interest to children’s librarians.
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FYI,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Jen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Jennifer Maurer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">School Library Consultant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Oregon State Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">250 Winter Street NE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">503.378.5011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:jennifer.maurer@state.or.us"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">jennifer.maurer@state.or.us</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">OSLIS ||
</span></b><span style="color:blue"><a href="www.oslis.org"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">www.oslis.org</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Learn to research. Research to learn.©</span></b><span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> oasl-all@memberclicks.net [mailto:oasl-all@memberclicks.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jennifer Maurer<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 27, 2013 3:33 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jennifer Maurer<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [oasl-all] Audio Options of Print Resources for Students on 504 and IEP Plans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">I recently received basically the same question from two different school librarians. They asked about sources for audiobooks or audio options of print resources for
students on IEP and 504 plans. After doing some research, I shared the following.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">But before we get started, here’s a
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#76923C">random nugget: November is Picture Book Month</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">. “Every day in November, there is a new post from a picture book champion explaining why he/she thinks picture
books are important.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://picturebookmonth.com/">http://picturebookmonth.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">And now back to our regularly scheduled email…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">TBABS</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><br>
Many IEP or 504 plan students qualify for Talking Book and Braille Services, a service based out of the State Library and which is free to the user. Qualifying patrons receive an audio player and access to downloadable or physical audiobooks. Note that textbooks
are not part of the TBABS library. Elke Bruton is the TBABS outreach librarian. If you still have questions after viewing the TBABS website, Elke will be able to answer them.<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/TBABS/pages/index.aspx">http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/TBABS/pages/index.aspx</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><a href="mailto:elke.bruton@state.or.us">elke.bruton@state.or.us</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> 503.378.5455<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Who is eligible for the service? The legally blind, visually disabled, physically disabled, deaf-blind, and reading disabled all qualify. Note that for reading disability only, the application must
be signed (certified) by a doctor of medicine (MD) or osteopathy (DO). For all other qualifying conditions, you or the teacher could sign off on the application. That being said, if you’re unsure about whether or not a student would qualify, call or email
Elke. Sometimes she/TBABS recognizes a qualification that we would miss.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/osl/TBABS/Pages/registration.aspx">http://www.oregon.gov/osl/TBABS/Pages/registration.aspx</a><br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Here’s info about BARD, the portion of the TBABS collection that can be downloaded straight to a mobile device or onto a flashdrive to use in the TBABS player.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/TBABS/Pages/bard_info.aspx">http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/TBABS/Pages/bard_info.aspx</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">ODE-Adopted Materials and NIMAC<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Per Melissa Glover with the Oregon Department of Education, all publishers whose instructional materials are adopted in Oregon must provide alternate accessible formats. The publishers do this through the
National Instructional Materials Access Center, although some publishers also post files on their own websites. NIMAC is a “national electronic file repository that makes National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) files available for the
production of core print instructional materials in specialized formats. Created under IDEA 2004, the NIMAC receives source files in NIMAS format from textbook publishers, and makes these files available for download to Authorized Users (AU) in the United
States and its territories through an online database.” While districts can have a designated NIMAC authorized user, there are also other ways to access NIMAC files. For example, Bookshare and Learning Ally offer access to NIMAC files. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> <a href="http://www.nimac.us/">
http://www.nimac.us/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Melissa Glover<br>
Education Specialist, Oregon Department of Education<br>
<a href="mailto:melissa.glover@state.or.us">melissa.glover@state.or.us</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> 503.947.5811<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Accessible Instructional Materials:
<a href="http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=1827">http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=1827</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Bookshare<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Bookshare bills itself as “an accessible online library for people with print disabilities” and claims to have over 200,000 titles. If offers both literature and instructional materials. On the
How Bookshare Works page, it indicates that “through an award from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), Bookshare offers free memberships to U.S. schools and qualifying U.S. students.” Per Melissa Glover, any student
with an IEP or 504 plan qualifies for Bookshare. To learn about audio options for Bookshare books, review the section called Reading Tools found under Getting Started. Learning Ally is another company with a similar mission, but best I can tell, it costs money
for students to participate. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> <a href="https://www.bookshare.org/">
https://www.bookshare.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> <a href="https://www.bookshare.org/_/aboutUs/howBookshareWorks">
https://www.bookshare.org/_/aboutUs/howBookshareWorks</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> <a href="https://www.bookshare.org/readingTools">
https://www.bookshare.org/readingTools</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> <a href="https://www.learningally.org/educators/">
https://www.learningally.org/educators/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Audiobook Vendors<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Vendors like Audible, Overdrive, and 3M offer a large selection of audiobooks from a variety of publishers. Also, there are options from standards like EBSCO, Follett,
Mackin, etc. It looks like Audible may not have a K-12 program? Overdrive and 3M are more known for eBooks, but their sites indicate that they have audiobooks, too. Plus, maybe eBooks can be listened to via Kindles, etc. (read-to-me features). If your school
or district (special ed department?) won’t pay for this kind of access, you could see if your public library subscribes. For example, many belong to Library2Go, which is an Oregon public library consortium that contracts with Overdrive. Students or teachers
with library cards could download audiobooks from Library2Go. It is not ideal to have to rely on an outside source, but it could help in a pinch.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> </span>
</b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><a href="http://www.audible.com/">http://www.audible.com/</a>
<a href="http://www.flr.follett.com/intro/av.html">http://www.flr.follett.com/intro/av.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> <a href="http://www.overdrive.com/education/k-12-schools/">
http://www.overdrive.com/education/k-12-schools/</a> <a href="http://www.mackin.com/SITE/AUDIO_BOOKS.aspx">
http://www.mackin.com/SITE/AUDIO_BOOKS.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> <a href="http://bit.ly/15bXPiF">
http://bit.ly/15bXPiF</a>
<a href="http://www.ebscohost.com/ebooks/schools/subscriptions">http://www.ebscohost.com/ebooks/schools/subscriptions</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Gale Databases<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">When you need informational text, remember that all articles found in the Gale databases, part of the statewide database package, can be listened to, and the audio files can be downloaded. It’s machine-read
audio, but it’s pretty good. Click on this article (<a href="http://tinygaleurl.com?eit66lk" target="_blank">http://tinygaleurl.com?eit66lk</a>) and click on Listen (towards the top left). If you are prompted to log in, try your school district’s Gale login.
If there is only one textbox, usually you just enter the password portion of the login. Once you click on Listen, a small box will pop up, and in that is the download link. Depending on the database, the Listen feature is in different places towards the top
of the page. An audio feature is likely available in periodicals and reference databases from other vendors, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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FYI,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Jen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">P.S. Please note that my mention of specific vendors is meant to serve as examples and is not an endorsement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Jennifer Maurer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">School Library Consultant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Oregon State Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">250 Winter Street NE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">503.378.5011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:jennifer.maurer@state.or.us"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">jennifer.maurer@state.or.us</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="color:blue"><a href="www.oslis.org"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">www.oslis.org</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Learn to research. Research to learn.©</span></b><span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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