RECORDING FOR THE BLIND & DYSLEXIC® WINS MULTIPLE NATIONAL AWARDS

November 3, 2005 (Princeton, NJ) - Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D®) has been honored with six awards from the League of American Communications Professionals (LACP), including the coveted Silver Award, in recognition of its web site; video and CD production; and internal and external publications. RFB&D, a nonprofit organization, is the nation's educational library of recorded textbooks for students with visual impairment, dyslexia or other physical disabilities that make reading standard textbooks difficult or impossible.

Garnering the 2005 Spotlight Silver Award was RFB&D's 2004 Annual Report Companion CD, In Their Own Words, scoring 94 out of a possible 100 points. The CD provides users with print disabilities an accessible method of navigating RFB&D's Annual Report and includes a video presentation featuring member and teacher testimonials about RFB&D's services. Judging criteria included first impression; narrative and visual content quality; creativity; and message clarity and relevance. The CD was also named one of the Top 100 Communications Materials of 2005. The printed 2004 Annual Report was itself a winner - honored with LACP's Bronze Vision Award.

Additional 2005 Spotlight Awards were bestowed on RFB&D's One Organization Video and its external newsletter, Impact, which both won Bronze awards, and RFB&D's web site and This is RFB&D brochure, which received Honors recognition.

Earlier this year, RFB&D's Strategic Communications team also earned several honors from The Communicator Awards - including the Crystal Award of Excellence for the RFB&D Teacher Training Kit. The RFB&D website was given an Award of Excellence from the 2005 APEX (Awards for Publication Excellence). The New Jersey chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PSRA) also acknowledged This is RFB&D and the 2004 Annual Report with its Pyramid Awards.

"Communicating RFB&D's message and mission to people who can benefit from and can help support our services is of paramount importance," says RFB&D Creative Director Diane Blaszka. "Repeated acknowledgements of RFB&D's work by internationally-renowned leaders in the communications field are honors that validate our creative efforts and reinforce the importance of our internal and external communications.

RFB&D is based in Princeton, NJ, and serves more than 141,000 members of all ages with a one-of-a-kind library of 104,000 recorded textbooks on CD and four-track cassette. Students with disabilities that make reading text challenging or impossible rely on RFB&D's unique accommodation to access the printed page and to achieve educational success. All of RFB&D's accessible titles are recorded by volunteers working in 29 RFB&D recording studios nationwide.

Established in 2001, the San Diego-based League of American Communications Professionals (LACP) encourages excellence in the practice of communications for corporations, small businesses, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions and government entities. Its quarterly award competitions attract entries from organizations around the world, including Fortune 500 companies.

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