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Accessible Books and Periodicals for Readers with Print Disabilities
Bookshare® is free for all U.S. students with qualifying disabilities, thanks to an award from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). Bookshare® dramatically increases the accessibility of books. People with disabilities deserve the same ease of access to books and periodicals that people without disabilities enjoy. A searchable online library. Bookshare offers approximately 90,000 digital books, textbooks, teacher-recommended reading, periodicals and assistive technology tools. Readers of all ages: Bookshare offers affordable membership, unlimited library privileges and a community of Members, Volunteers, parents, publishers and authors.
60 Second Recap- a 60 second audio/video presentation of classic works of literature.
Biography.com: A searchable biographical
database of over 25,000 people, past and present. Suitable for grades 6-12.
Bookwink. A video book review podcast for children.
Boston
Public Library Overdrive: The Boston Public Library allows you to download
and “borrow” books in digital audio format. Most books are only downloadable in
Windows Media Player format. You can sign up for a free BPL eCard or you can
use your existing library card.
Free
Audio Books: Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free, hundreds of
free classic audio books to your mp3 player or computer. Here you’ll find great
works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
Audio & Podcasts
Internet
Archive, The: The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was
founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent
access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the
general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded
in 1996 and located in San
Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the
organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the
Internet Archive includes texts,
audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our
collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and
information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.
Kids Audio Books: Talking
Books: Kids Audio Books - Talking Books for Children Audio Books for Kids -
Hundreds of Talking Books. Wonderful Fairy Tales and Adventure Stories, Reading
Books and Coloring Books for Kids of All Ages. Plus Software. All FREE to
Download. Safe Surf Rated.
Kids Learn Out Loud: Browse by Age, Children's Literature, Free Stuff, etc.
Learn Out Loud:
LearnOutLoud.com is a one-stop destination for audio and video learning.
Browse over 10,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and
videos.
Librivox: Free Audio Books (Public
Domain) Audio books that are in the public domain in Canada and the United
States. These books are read by freelance narrator, "jedopi" as well
as other LibriVox volunteers.
Lit2Go (Literature 2 Go): Lit2Go is a
free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audio book) format. You
can:
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Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go,
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Listen to the Mp3 files on your computer,
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View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen,
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Print out the stories and poems to make your own book.
The Mother Goose Club has a number of rhymes and songs that provide audio support for the text.
National Geographic Podcasts. At the moment they are only listing Dog Whisperer video podcasts but may be worth checking back later.
NOVA: Science Now Podcasts
Open Culture is a blog that connects to educational and cultural media (podcasts, videos, online courses).
Podiobooks have free serialized audiobooks that you can download on a schedule.
Project Gutenberg- Free print and audio books are available for download
Public Domain
Audio Books: Audio books that are in the public domain in Canada and the
United States. These books are read by freelance narrator, "jedopi"
as well as other LibriVox volunteers.
Read Print - free online book library with over 8,000 titles that can be read using any free text reader (tested with Natural Reader).
Science
Science and the Sea. A two minute podcast covering marine topics.
Science Talk: Scientific American
Why? The Science Show for Kids Podcast. Very short (3 or 4 minutes) but each one answers a science question.
Signed Stories- Free audio books designed for elementary readers that are also signed.
Storyline Online: Read-a-louds by actors and professionals using an online video streaming
program. This site also has lessons and related activities that go along with
each book. Good resource for any elementary grade.
Storynory has published a free audio story every week since November 2005. All our stories are read by professional actors. Storynory has published a new audio story every week since November 2005.
Wild Classroom, The: Video Podcasts for EcoGeeks. Short but fun - the children really liked these.
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