Digital talking books, Malawi
Although there are some Braille production and rehabilitation services for blind people in Malawi there is no production of talking books. The blind or visually impaired student is therefore doubly disadvantaged in the education system, firstly because of their disability and secondly because the curricular materials that are required for their study are not made available to them; this is illustrated by the fact that there are only six blind learners at University in Malawi.This FORCE project involves setting up a recording studio and producing and distributing DAISY talking books. This is a product specially designed for visually impaired people where the printed book is read in a recording studio and digitally recorded onto tape or CD.
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