Talking Book and Braille Library

Eligibility

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You are eligible for this library service if you are a resident of upstate New York, of any age, and you have a physical disability that prevents you from reading print materials:

• You can't see well enough to read conventional print. Specifically, you must:
  • Be legally blind, with vision in the better eye of 20/200 or less with correcting lenses, or:
  • Have a visual field no greater than 20 degrees in diameter, or:
  • Be unable to see well enough to focus long enough to read standard print, even with corrective lenses.

  OR:

• You have a permanent or temporary physical limitation which prevents you from holding a book or turning its pages. Physical disabilities which may prevent the ability to read include:
  
  
  • multiple sclerosis,
  • stroke,
  • cerebral palsy,
  • severe arthritis,
  • paralysis,
  • a missing arm or hand,
  • lack of muscle coordination, and
  • prolonged weakness.

  OR:

• You have a physically-based reading disability. You must be certified by a medical doctor as having a reading or learning disability due to an organic dysfunction severe enough to prevent reading in the usual manner.