Tape aids helps build a nation of avid readers
Tape Aids pays it forward by the blind in education with its dual reading method, especially for learners with various forms of dyslexia and autism or attention deficit disorders.
If you know anyone who has difficulty reading, whether young grandchildren or elderly acquaintances, help them open whole new worlds by becoming members of Tape Aids Avid Readers’ Audio Library.
This library has thousands of talking books recorded by the hundreds of volunteer narrators and proofreaders assisting the non-profit organisation Tape Aids for the Blind since 1958.
Also, if you enjoy reading aloud, why not become a volunteer member? You will be equipped with a microphone and trained on the audio software so you can record and proof from the comfort of your home.
Anne Woodman was the tape aids librarian at its Margate Service Centre way back in 1981. Over the past decade, Sharon Lombard has been looking after members’ reading and educational needs at its centre located at Margate Retirement Village.
Many of their library members say that their lives would not be worth living without the companionship of tape aids’ books, whose narrators take the place of lost or absent family members.
One member, who had lost her sight and had been contemplating suicide, told them that now her evening prayer ends with: ‘ Lord, if it’s my time to go, please let me wake up and finish the book before you take me.’
Tape Aids pays it forward by the blind in education with its dual reading method, especially for learners with various forms of dyslexia and autism or attention deficit disorders.
If you’d like to learn more about the dual reading method or hear-to-read activity centres housing both print and talking books for early childhood development or how you can become a member of the library or help others by becoming a volunteer member, then join them at Margate Retirement Village’s administration centre’s Pink Room on Wednesday, November 20 at 09:30.
A finger lunch (bring and share) will be served after the event. Not many may know that there is a Tape Aids Library at the Village, and so the public is invited to attend to find out more.
The library is open to everyone who cannot read in the normal manner.
Elza-Lynne Kruger, the National Director from Head office in Durban, will be visiting and will give a talk on tape aids.
Two staff members from Cape Town will also be attending, and another from Durban, to answer any questions anyone may have.
All are welcome to attend, especially those who would benefit from Tape Aids.
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