Thursday, October 30, 2008

Chain, Chain, Change

I connect with the well connected community. The customers I work with in Talking Books benefit from this. They can come into the library and use the computers. But, you might think how can they use a computer if they can't see? With technology, there are progams that can be loaded on the computers, here we have JAWS. Instead of seeing the sceen they are read back what appears on the screen. Also, having Overdrive as downloadable media is another. The blind are able to download recent titles instead of having to wait for it to come out as a talking book.

1 comment:

OCLS Learn 2.0 said...

Hey Pam!
Great post! Technology has helped millions of special needs folks that is for sure! When I was working for the school system, I had a student intern that was a quadrapaligic. He spent the summer with me entering data into one of our databases with his chin mouse. It was an amazing experience!

Tom