We use Peter Stearns’ World Civilizations: The Global Experience in our World Civilizations classes for both 9th and 10th graders. This is a college level text. Some of the students have difficulty getting through the text. To combat such an issue, especially for dyslexic students, Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic publishes common textbooks on audio CD. I believe this is a great resource and believe that every library should have recordings of their textbooks so that students have access to resources that would assist them. Well, at least I’m going to try to get a recording for our department.
The only downside is that the membership and the special cd player that is required are not cheap. I guess you have to be wealthy to afford access to these reading aid materials.
http://www.rfbd.org/2004_membership_pricing.htm
Learning Through Listening Individual Memberships:
Registration Fee: $65.00
Annual Fee: $35.00
Total due at initial registration: $100
Total due at annual membership renewal: $35
Special CD player (worth it — the navigation keys are easier to use)
Less than $300.00.
So if you started your kid with RFB&D in say 4th grade, and assuming he did not break the CD player, and used RFB&D all through high school $75/year to access the curriculum.
Pretty cheap if you ask me.