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Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic®
National Headquarters
20 Roszel Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
866-RFBD-585 (866-732-3585)

Connecticut Unit

Location

209 Orange Street
New Haven, CT 06510
Phone: 203-624-4334
Fax: 203-865-0203

Hours of Operation:

Monday, Wednesday, & Thursday: 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday: 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Saturday: 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

The Connecticut Unit's charter reads April 2, 1959. We are located within walking distance of Yale and there are many other universities in the area. Our new initiatives involve self-directed recording and home recording.

The Connecticut Unit was started in 1959 by a handful of volunteers who recorded textbooks onto shellac disks in 600 square feet of space donated by the New Haven Library. In the 1960s, the Connecticut Unit was selected by national headquarters for a special and prestigious project: recording the complete works of nine American authors. The definitive editions were approved by the Center for Editions of American Authors of the Modern Language Association. The authors were: Samuel Clemens, Stephen Crane, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. Connecticut was selected for this project because of its production quality, which national headquarters described as "outstanding - particularly in the recording of literature, the meticulousness of book preparation and the quality of reading."

Later, in the early 1980s, the Connecticut Unit was designated as a specialist in the production of science and technology books because of its high quality work in those areas. The Connecticut Unit:

  • operates a studio with six soundproof booths and sophisticated recording and duplication equipment that produces four-track tapes and cassettes

  • uses over 160 volunteers and a small paid staff for both tape preparation and overall management

  • records tapes for over 750 Connecticut residents and thousands of people across the country

  • records a wide variety of texts including science and technology books

Volunteer Information:

Due to a small staff, our studio has volunteers doing almost everything. Volunteers do the bookmarking, tape checking, tape duplication, they send bills to HQ for paying, thank you letters to donors, grant writing and almost anything else. We need more math, economics, chemistry, biochemistry and medical readers.

Make A Difference by Making A Donation

To use our secure online server to donate to the Connecticut Unit, RFB&D headquarters, or a combination of both, see our Donate Now page.

Contact Information:

Call 203-624-4334 or send an e-mail to connecticut@rfbd.org.

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National Headquarters • 20 Roszel Road • Princeton, NJ 08540