Assisting Students with Diverse Learning Styles

Bookshare.org

Students have a free national depositor of e-books for the print disabled. Bookshare was created to stop redundancies of books being scanned and distributed to students.

In 2007 special funding for the e-books for the U.S. Office of Special Education programs made it possible for eligible students to have access to novels and textbooks. Students with visual impairments, physical disabilities, or print-based disabilities (Learning Disability in one of the 3 reading areas) are eligible to obtain digital books through Bookshare. Bookshare books provide the student access to the curriculum books, magazines, or newspapers. The e-books are DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System), mp3 or embossed Braille formats.

In order for the books to be read on the computer a text reader software would need to be installed. Bookshare offers free software for reading DAISY digital books including the Victor Reader Soft Bookshare or Read:Outloud 6 Bookshare Edition.