As someone who worked in adult literacy in another lifetime (college over 30
years ago), most adults who did not read fell into one of three categories, but
dyslexia was the largest group. Second was non-English speaking households or
immigrants, and last people who dropped out of school at young ages to help
support family or even held jobs as children to contribute to family income.
HTH!
Valerie
On Mar 31, 2017, at 10:45 AM, Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, when I said “nondisabled” perhaps I should have said “non-print
disabled” or something like that. By “disabled” I really meant anyone who
can’t read regular print books for whatever reason. Surely that counts as a
disability, so, conversely, being “nondisabled” means you can read regular
print books.
Sorry for any confusion.
Evan
From: Cindy Rosenthal <mailto:grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 12:18 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Volunteer Cooperation Gets Books Done
I was going to point out what Roger said; I hop you tell your
"non-disabledacquaintances about bookshare; I assume you reallymeant sighted
rather than non-disabled. I told my daughter'smother-in-law about bookshare
because she has some problem (I don't remember what --maybe limited vision-
and I'm pretty sure she joined
Cindy
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 8:37 PM, Roger Loran Bailey
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Dyslexia is a disability that qualifies one for Bookshare. In fact, I think
there are more dyslexic Bookshare users than blind Bookshare users. At least
the dyslexics out number the blind people who use Learning Ally. As for the
person who does not like to read because he has bad eyes, I have heard that
excuse so many times that I tend to doubt it. That is, they claim that they
have bad eyes and so do not read while showing absolutely no evidence of bad
eyes or poor eyesight in any other way. I get the impression that they just
do not like to read and feel guilty about admitting it and so they use bad
eyes as an excuse. However, if someone had bad eyes to the extent that it
really would interfere with reading then that would qualify them for
Bookshare too.
On 3/30/2017 11:02 PM, Barbara B (Redacted sender scootergirlred for DMARC)
wrote:
Evan, this is a beautiful e-mail. I also think that many people in the
"non-disabled" world have disabilities that prevent them from reading. For
instance, I was speaking to someone who told me that he hates to read. I
asked him why and he said because he has "bad eyes." Another person I spoke
to said that he has dyslexia and does not like to read. In fact, he said
that he can't read. I guess, he never got the help he needed as a child. I
have severe trouble visually tracking words but you would never know it
looking at me. I was legally blind at one time so I know all about the
"system" of reading auditorally, etc. If I had never been legally blind, I
probably would not be reading much now even though I still have a vision
problem. President Trump said that he doesn't like to read. Why? My point
is that Bookshare can have a profound impact when more people become
conscious of it and are allowed to use it. I pray that the funding for it
continues because it has and can continue to help so many people.
Barbara
From: Evan Reese mailto:mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ;
<mailto:mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 10:47 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Volunteer Cooperation Gets Books Done
Hi Guys,
I just got notice that a book I scanned was approved, a book that one of
our volunteers, Charisma, bought that she wanted to get into the
collection, The Evidence Never Lies: The Casebook of a Modern Sherlock
Holmes. She had it sent to me, I scanned it, Beverly Cory proofread it
expeditiously, and it was added to the collection earlier today in a timely
manner.
It’s truly marvelous that people all over the country can work together to
make books accessible for those of us who can’t read regular print that
otherwise wouldn’t be available anywhere. Only Bookshare lets us do this
kind of thing. Nowhere else can people have the desire to read something
that’s inaccessible, make their wish known, and get their wish granted in a
few weeks. And that doesn’t take into account the likelihood of many other
Bookshare members, finding out about the book once it’s in the collection,
who will be able to read and enjoy it who otherwise never would.
We all need to work to preserve this capability that only Bookshare
provides. It would be a terrible tragedy if we were to lose it due to the
shortsightedness of those who have no interest in the needs of the
disabled, or empathy for their difficulties participating in our modern
culture that so many nondisabled take for granted.
Evan
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