Provides Braille materials, education, and information to individuals, groups, and/or agencies.  Volunteer opportunities: Board members, clerical, community outreach, Braille transcribers.

Braille Materials and Education offered at Northwest Braille Services

Provides Braille materials, education, and information to individuals, groups, and agencies.  Volunteer opportunities are available.

Programs that transfer materials that were originally written in English or another language into Braille, a system that uses raised dots to represent numerals and letters of the alphabet which can be identified by the fingers.

Braille Transcription

Libraries or other organizations that maintain collections of books, magazines and other reading materials in Braille, a system that uses raised dots to represent numerals and letters of the alphabet which can be identified by the fingers, that are made available on a loan basis to community residents who are blind or who have visual impairments. Also included are organizations that distribute copies of books, magazines and other reading material in Braille format that people can keep.

Braille Materials/Collections

Provides Braille transcription of general printed materials, foreign language texts, textbooks for all ages preschool through college, tactile drawings, binding of books, thermoforming, computer produced with scanner and embosser.

Braille Transcription and Library offered at Lilac Services for the Blind in Wenatchee

Programs that pay for or provide hardware or software adaptations such as Braille embossers and translators, speech synthesizers, text-to-speech synthesizers, screen readers and screen enlargement programs or screen magnifiers which enable people who have visual disabilities to read the displays on their computers and information systems and/or use other forms of output.

Computer Display/Output Aids

Programs that pay for or provide equipment which can be used to create materials that are written in Braille (a system which uses raised dots to represent numerals and letters of the alphabet that can be identified by the fingers), Optacons or other devices that help people to read and/or write using their sense of touch. Included are devices such as calculators, alarm clocks, watches, calendars, kitchen equipment, scales and other items which have tactile displays.

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Braille Materials and Education offered at Northwest Braille Services

Braille Transcription and Library offered at Lilac Services for the Blind in Wenatchee

Braille Transcription and Library offered at Lilac Services for the Blind in Spokane