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 high school, college and post-graduate students.
If you have a background in medicine, chemistry,
biology or statistics, 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 high school, college and post-graduate-level
science texts. If you are interested in volunteering to record
with us, please contact:
Chris Smith
Production Director
E-mail: ccsmith@rfbd.org
Phone: 202-244-8990
Training on our digital recording equipment
is provided. In addition to learning the recording equipment,
we will also teach you 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:
Genetics: Analysis of Genes and Genomes
About our members:
More than 185,000 students across the nation (nearly 5,000
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
- A blind aspiring computer programmer
enrolled at George Mason University
- A 43-year-old woman who recently began
college — she was diagnosed with 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 RFB&D's
National Website.
Thank you for your interest in volunteering
for Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic of Metropolitan
Washington.
Chris Smith
Production Director
E-mail: ccsmith@rfbd.org
Phone: (202) 244-8990
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