Bookshare.org Member Jessica Pinto

Profile of Bookshare.org member Jessica Pinto, a student at the Kennedy Middle School in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Jessica, who has a physical disability, reads digital books from Bookshare.org on her laptop in a large font. Her mother Mary Pinto and her educational assistant Heather Morrison comment on how Bookshare.org has helped Jessica read independently.


Bookshare.org is the worlds largest online library for people with print disabilities. It offers more than 40,000 books and periodicals in accessible formats for reading in Braille, large print or with digital text to speech audio. The Bookshare.org library is free to all qualified U.S. students thanks to funding from the U.S. Department of Educations Office of Special Programs (OSEP).


Bookshare.org http://www.bookshare.org/web/Welcome.html
is a project of Benetech http://www.benetech.org/ a Palo Alto, California-based nonprofit technology development organization.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• books
• disability
• library
• reading
• accessible
• technology
• computer
• software

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