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Reader Service

Reader Service is a recording service for textbooks provided by ASU Disability Services through
RFB&D (Recording For the Blind and Dyslexic).

RFB&D is a national nonprofit organization serving people who cannot read standard print because of a visual, 
perceptual or other physical disability.

Who is eligible?

   Students who are Blind or visually impaired and Students with Learning Disabilities who are registered with Disability Services.

What can be recorded?

      Textbooks for your class. Disability services recommends students to become a member of RFB&D. By becoming a member of RFB&D, students will be able to acquire limitless materials on tapes, and not only textbooks. Disability services only provides a student textbooks on tapes for classes that the student is currently attending. To ensure a timely manner in receiving books on tape for class, DS recommend students to contact DS office as soon as two weeks before the beginning of the semester.  

What happens if the tape a student requested is not available?

Disability Services will provide the textbook(s) in electronic text format which can be read by a computer using a reading program.

What should I do with the tape that I no longer need?

The books on tapes are given to Disability Services by RFB&D on loan basis. Students are expected to return the tapes they loan as soon as they are finished with them. A student can keep a set of tapes for as long as one semester.