Text on Tape Service
Students with documented learning disabilities or physical disabilities that require assistance with reading can obtain textbooks on audiotape, Braille, and/or large print. The Disability Services Office will use the Reading for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) library. If RFD&B library does not have the required textbook, the Disability Services Office will record chapters, with staff and student volunteers, as needed, throughout the semester. State Services for the BLind provide Braille materials to eligible students.
Procedures:
- Students requesting text on tape services must have supporting documentation on file at the Disability Services Office and approval from Julie Snow.
- Students must fill out the Alternative Format Textbook Request form(s) from the Disability Services Office.
- Students should complete and return the request form(s) to the Disability Services Office at least two weeks before the beginning of the semester or as soon as possible if two weeks prior have past.
- The Disability Services Office orders your textbook(s) from the RFB&D Library.
- If the RFB&D Library does not have the textbook, the Disability Services Office borrows the text from the campus bookstore and will record the chapters as needed on tape. Students must provide a course syllabus guide the taping process. Students will be contacted by phone or e-mail when tapes are completed or when we receive them from RFB&D.
- Students are required to return all tapes to the Disability Services Office by the end of the semester in which they were borrowed. Charges for unreturned tapes will be assessed through the Office of Business Affairs and a hold will be placed on your registration until they have been returned and/or charges payed.
- Additional materials, such as handouts and supplemental packets, can be read onto tape as well.
