The Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) has long been creating accessible options for people who are blind or partially sighted.  Now they are branching out; by helping anyone with a print disability.

You might be thinking ‘only blind and partially sighted people have print disabilities’ & that would be only part of the truth.

As it turns out;

“A print disability is any learning disability (impairment relating to comprehension), physical disability (inability to hold/manipulate a book), or visual (severe or total impairment of sight) disability that prevents a person from reading conventional print”(Canadian National Institute for the Blind, 2015, para. 6).

CNIB Literacy Programs

1. TD Summer Reading Club

2. Early Literacy Kit

3. Braille Creative Writing Contest

Combined with CELA, the Centre for Equitable Library Access,  the CNIB is dedicated to making essential literacy skills available to people of all abilities in an effort to:

• Improve Educational Skills, and in turn
• Improve Employment Opportunities.

For more information click here

Citation:

Canadian National Institute for the Blind. (2015). Literacy and accessible publishing. Retrieved from http://www.cnib.ca/en/services/CLAP/Pages/default.aspx