RFB&D
NIH Volunteer Program:
A Special Invitation to NIH Employees
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D)
is a national nonprofit volunteer organization that provides recorded
textbooks to people who cannot read the printed word because of
a visual, learning or other disability. Our students learn by
listening to recordings of their textbooks.
At RFB&D's satellite studio at NIH, volunteers
record science and medical texts that are in demand by college
and post-graduate students.
If you have a background in medicine, chemistry,
biology, statistics, mathematics, or computer science, please
consider volunteering with RFB&D. Our most critical need is
volunteers with expertise in college and post-graduate level sciences.
Student demand for texts at this level is surpassing our ability
to record them.
To help meet this demand, RFB&D has a studio
at the main campus of NIH in Bethesda, for the convenience of
NIH employees who can record college and post-graduate level science
texts. If you are interested in volunteering to record with us,
please contact:
Sarah
Scully
Assistant Production Director
E-mail: sscully@rfbd.org
Phone: (202) 244-8990
All training on our digital recording equipment
is provided. In addition to learning the recording equipment,
you will also be taught how to read tables, figures, diagrams,
and charts included with the text. This training process takes
some time, so we ask for a minimum commitment of one hour per
week for six months to ensure that both you and our students get
the most out of your volunteer work.
Titles in progress at our NIH
studio:
Biochemistry, 5th edition
Bipolar Disorder in Adolescence
More coming soon!
About
our members:
More than 126,000 students across the nation (4,000 in the Washington
area) use RFB&D's recorded texts to pursue their education
and to advance their careers. Without the help of dedicated professionals,
we would not be able to record the advanced level texts that our
students need.
Students
using RFB&D's texts today:
- George Washington University's first blind medical student
- An aspiring computer programmer enrolled at George Mason University
who is blind
- A 43-year-old woman who recently began college -- she was
diagnosed as having dyslexia, referred to RFB&D, and is
now able to study her assigned books because she can listen
to them
Professionals
who used RFB&D's recorded textbooks to succeed in school:
- A federal judge who is blind
- An aerospace engineer at Orbital Sciences who has dyslexia
For more information, visit: the
Metropolitan Washington Unit Website and RFB&D's
National Website
Thank you for your interest in volunteering for
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic of Metropolitan Washington.
Sarah
Scully
Assistant Production Director
E-mail: sscully@rfbd.org
Phone: (202) 244-8990
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