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Audio texts are keys for many school doors - Volunteers needed to record books

Students arrive at school and the door is locked. Unthinkable. Unacceptable. Yet that's basically what happens when students can't read textbooks because they're blind, dyslexic or coping with other disabilities. There is a key for them: recordings of textbooks. Unfortunately, too many Arizona students don't know about them or don't have access to them. An estimated nine out of 10 Arizona students who could use recorded texts are not getting them. And volunteers are needed to produce the recordings....


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