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The Metropolitan Washington chapter of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&DŽ), a nonprofit organization, offers students a proven, effective solution to access textbook information through its "Learning Through Listening" program. This innovative approach allows students to overcome reading barriers by listening to recorded textbooks. Today, RFB&D provides recorded textbooks, playback equipment and training to thousands of local students who rely on RFB&D to pursue their education goals. More than 110,000 book titles in audio format are housed in RFB&D's national library to accommodate the needs of students in elementary through graduate school. Subjects are as diverse as the students who are listening: from foreign languages to natural sciences, from ancient history to mathematics, from computer applications to the latest cookbooks. At RFB&D's recording studio in Friendship Heights and on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, 400 volunteers give more than 20,000 hours of their time annually to record textbooks. In addition to serving local students individually and through schools, RFB&D partners with after school programs in inner-city neighborhoods to ensure that recorded texts are available to students in under-served areas of the community. For more information about RFB&D of Metropolitan Washington, please contact Mary Reyner, Development Director, at (202) 244-8990 or visit www.rfbd.org/DC.
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