Talking book helps blind
Jeremy Hall, aged eight, is blind. Now, thanks to a talking encyclopaedia, he has access to information normally locked up in print. The machine Jeremy is using was given to the Elmwood Visual Resources Centre by W. B. Marketing yesterday. It plays the “World Book Encyclopaedia” and has listings in braille and large print. With Jeremy, a pupil at Elmwood School, is Mrs Helen Anderson, the comanager of World Books in the South Island. “Children can use it as fast as non-handicapped children can use a set of books,” she said of the American-developed machine. It is the second such machine presented by the company in New Zealand; one is already in use at Homai College, Auckland. Mr Jeff Holder, the centre’s senior resource officer, said that the centre would find the encyclo-
paedia valuable as a learning aid for its work in Canterbury and the West Coast. By providing resources, the centre aimed to keep
children with handicaps in their local schools. Mr Stuart Bryant, of
World Books, said that the
special cassette machine with braille symbols cost more than SUSI2OO; cassettes and large-print
material were extra. A child could use the search-and-seek book to find information in just 60 seconds.
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