Audio-Reader receives grant for Internet radios


Fri, 03/27/2015

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Feloniz Lovato-Winston

LAWRENCE — The Douglas County Community Foundation has awarded the Kansas Audio-Reader Network $1,495 for Internet radios.

Audio-Reader, a free reading and information service, provides a 24/7 broadcast of newspapers, magazines and books to the blind, visually impaired and print-disabled. Many Audio-Reader listeners access programs using a closed-circuit radio; however, some individuals live in areas or buildings that do not receive the Audio-Reader radio signal. The Internet radios provided by the Douglas County Community Foundation will be distributed to anyone who cannot access the Audio-Reader radio signal.

“While we have worked hard in recent years to expand our radio coverage, there are still areas that do not receive our signal,” said Peg Sampson, Audio-Reader outreach coordinator and listener liaison. “Also, certain retirement homes are built of concrete and steel for safety purposes, and our radio signal cannot penetrate their walls. These Internet radios will help provide services to all potential listeners, regardless of where they live.”

The grant from the Douglas County Community Foundation will help Audio-Reader achieve its goal of reaching out to new listeners in 2015. 

Broadcasting from the Baehr Audio-Reader Center on the University of Kansas campus, the Audio-Reader Network provides a broadcast of more than 95 newspapers, as well as countless books and magazine articles, to anyone who has difficulty reading conventional print. For more information about Audio-Reader, visit www.reader.ku.edu. To learn more about the Douglas County Community Foundation, visit www.dccfoundation.org.

 

Fri, 03/27/2015

author

Feloniz Lovato-Winston

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