Parents
As
an involved parent, you want to ensure every opportunity for your child's
educational success.
Students with learning disabilities who listen to recorded titles while following along with the book show greater educational success and feel better about themselves because they can keep pace with their peers.
Registering
your child as an individual member allows him or her access to RFB&D's
extensive library of digitally recorded audiobook titles. Even if your
child's school has its own Learning Through Listening Institutional Membership,
an individual membership would enable your child to have the freedom to
pursue independent or supplemental reading. Visit
our home page to see the current number of audiobooks in our continuously
growing collection.
Your registered child would also have unlimited access to RFB&D's reference librarian service and the option to request books not in our current collection. Having an individual membership means that your child can order audio textbooks and have them shipped directly to your home. In addition, your child can continue to reap the benefits of an individual membership throughout his or her entire educational and professional career.
It's
easy to register with RFB&D. Since we are a nonprofit organization, we
charge a nominal membership fee to help defray the costs of producing
our unique service to as many eligible people as possible. The cost of
an individual membership is $35 a year, plus an initial registration fee
of $65.
In order to play RFB&D audiobooks, you will need to use specially adapted CD players or software. You can also use Windows-compatible portable media players or computers for our downloadable audio textbooks. RFB&D offers a complete line of players, software and accessories for nonprofit sale. Click on the "Players and Accessories" button above and to the left for more information.*
Becoming an individual member is easy!
- Register Online
or complete the Individual Membership
Application
- Obtain a signature from a qualified
professional in the field of disability services, education, medicine,
or psychology and send in the completed certification form. The certifier
must be a recognized expert who attests to the physical basis of the
visual, perceptual or other physical disability, which limits the applicant's
use of standard print. (Appropriate certifying experts may differ from
disability to disability.)
- Complete and sign the Copyright
Acknowledgment Form. The contents of all RFB&D audiobooks are
protected under copyright law. Copying, sharing or redistributing them
in any form to any person is strictly prohibited by law and is a violation
of publishers' rights and of the terms of RFB&D memberships. All
members, both individual and institutional, are required to complete,
sign and return a Copyright Acknowledgment
Form before their membership application can be processed.
- Return all completed parts of the application to:
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Attn: Member Services
20 Roszel Road
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
Register Online Now or Download an application
If you would prefer to receive an application by mail, please contact Member Services toll-free at: 800-221-4792
*If you purchased your CD player or software from another source, you will need to purchase a User Authorization Key (UAK) before you can play our books. The cost of the UAK is $10 for CD players and $10-$20 for software, depending on which software product you are using. In addition, you will be required to send your CD player to RFB&D for installation of the UAK. Please contact Member Services at 800-221-4792 if you have any questions regarding the purchase or installation of the User Authorization Key.
