Students With Disabilities Receive Support From Textbook Publishers

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For students who have dyslexia, print text books can be a challenge while books on tape can help them keep up with their studies. The AAP is doing its part to help college students overcome the challenge that reading presents to them.

For students who have dyslexia, print text books can be a challenge while books on tape can help them keep up with their studies. The AAP is doing its part to help college students overcome the difficulties that reading presents to them.

Imagine that you are attending college and it is a struggle for you to keep up with reading as dyslexia or some other impairment has been with you throughout most of your life. You’re a proven fighter, someone who earned their high school diploma with some help from family members, friends, and an understanding faculty, but at college you’re kind of feeling like you’re on your own.

One publishing organization — The Association of American Publishers (AAP) — is doing their part to help out students who have physical challenges. The AAP has announced its agreement with the Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC), an initiative of the Georgia Board of Regents and the University of Georgia, to launch the AccessText Network, a national online system that will make it easier and quicker for students with disabilities to obtain the alternative electronic textbooks they need for their college courses.

According to Patricia Schroeder, AAP’s president and chief executive officer, many college students who have disabilities struggle to use required and/or recommended print textbooks which are important components of their learning experience.

The AccessText Network will be run by Christopher Lee, Ph.D., Department Head/Director of AMAC, and who was diagnosed with dyslexia in the second grade and received his textbooks on tape while attending The University of Georgia.

“I remember having to wait for volunteers to finish reading my textbook onto a tape before I could get access to the content. I was one of the fortunate ones to get through college. AccessText will be the national nucleus of alternative textbook college distribution. The link between the corporate world and academia is more than just a handshake in this case. Leading corporate publishers have invested in the AccessText initiative with the goal of helping students achieve their college education and future employment dreams,” said Lee.

AccessText Network is being funded through donations from publishers Cengage Learning, CQ Press, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill Education, Pearson, Reed Elsevier Inc., John Wiley & Sons and W.W. Norton.

Source: AccessText Network

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