Programs
The Recorded Books Program
The Recorded Books Program serves children and adults who are either visually or physically disabled, or learning differenced. Listeners may choose from over 3,700 catalog titles listed in our catalog, or can request that materials be recorded. Recordings are currently provided on either on a standard two-track cassette or CD (MP3 format), which the listener may keep. To request a recording of specific materials, please contact the Recorded Books Manager at 214-871-7668, or e-mail Recorded Books Program.
Any child, in grades one through twelve, who qualifies for Special Education or Section 504 services, in either public, private or home-school setting, may receive their state-adopted textbooks, as well as any of their supplementary classroom and outside reading, in an audio format. This also applies to students using English as a second language who are otherwise print impaired. Teachers may order books to be shipped directly to them. Reading & Radio Resource grants permission for these books to be duplicated for other students who are print impaired.
Our clients include:
- Regional Service Centers
- Schools
- Independent School Districts
- Corporations and Agencies including:
- American Foundation for the Blind
- Guide Dog Users
- DART
- Individual Listeners
Listeners can order books in a number of different ways, including by phone, mail or e-mail. No enrollment process is necessary and the books become the property of the listener.
NTRB (North Texas Radio for the Blind)
NTRB are the call letters of a most special radio broadcast. We currently offer 24 hours of continuous programming to our listeners. During this time, information and entertainment in areas not available on TV or public radio are broadcast. Readings of local and national newspapers and magazines, special interest shows and unabridged novels comprise our daily programs.
More than 40,000 people within the range of our signal are potential listeners to our daily broadcasts for the blind and print handicapped.
NTRB operates over a sub-carrier of KERA 90.1 FM, and is received within a radius of 70 miles from the Cedar Hill towers. To decode the signal, a special agency-supplied receiver is provided free of charge to qualified listeners. Listeners must be certified as print impaired by a physician or social worker and should submit an application (PDF or Word Doc) to Radio Program, or fax to 214-871-7669.
