American Printing House and Dollywood...

RantWoman's blog as file cabinet is happy to assemble info from multiple streams and to make it all searchable on the blog. Plus, RantWoman is passionate about early literacy in all its forms.

(Pssst. RantWoman could read regular print in bulk quantities out of one eye with glasses all the way through graduate school until her midlife vision meltodown. HOWEVER, RantWoman sometimes wonders, given family history, whether it would have been fun to learn Braille as a kid, say if there were already another kid in school learning Braille. RantMom probably would have been HORRIFIED, but it would have made things like giving a speech SOoooooo much easier. RantWoman will probably keep harping on this idea, so just get used to it.)

http://www.aph.org/dolly-partons-imagination-library/


Also, if you go to the page, you can watch the video of Dolly announcing the partnership and the president of APH speaking.

American Printing House for the Blind Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Partnership

Accessible Books Website
Photo by The Mountain Press, Sevierville, TN

The American Printing House for the Blind (APH) and the Dollywood Foundation are pleased to announce a partnership that expands Dolly Parton's Imagination Library (DPIL) program to provide young blind and visually impaired children with accessible books!

Audio Books
Thanks to the American Printing House for the Blind/Dolly Parton's
Imagination Library Partnership and the support of Penguin Group USA we will offer a growing collection of audio files of DPIL books as free downloads.

Print/Braille Books
Beginning in 2012, the American Printing House for the Blind/Dolly Parton's
Imagination Library Partnership will make it possible for APH to produce
selected Imagination Library books in a print/braille format. APH will
select five titles from the current year's DPIL booklist, those most
appropriate for a child with a visual impairment, to translate into braille.

Two hundred copies of each title will be made.

The books will be provided free-of-charge to eligible families. Eligibility
requirements will be posted at this site in 2012. For all others, the books
will be available from APH at a low, affordable price, either as an
individual cash purchase or for purchase on Federal Quota.

APH President Tuck Tinsley: "We're excited! What an honor it is to partner
with someone like Dolly who is as passionate about literacy as we are. This
relationship between The Imagination Library and the American Printing House for the Blind means that blind and visually impaired preschoolers can now be more involved in the experience of reading with their parents."

Ms. Parton: "Any credit I get is really due to the hard work and fine
reputation of all of those who partner with us to bring the love of reading
to so many kids. I am just thrilled we can work together to bring this same
joy to all children who may have trouble seeing but have no trouble in
believing that all of their dreams can come true."