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CUT TO: Teacher or mom working with girl
NARRATOR: Helping students learn is the goal of all teachers.
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NARRATOR: Each year, thousands of students across the country with print disabilities
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NARRATOR: are able to reach their academic potential
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NARRATOR: by using the Learning Through Listening program from the national nonprofit organization
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NARRATOR: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic.
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NARRATOR: Whether it’s the result of visual impairment
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NARRATOR: or learning disability, the inability to efficiently access the printed page is a huge barrier.
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NARRATOR: Implementing RFB&D’s Learning
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NARRATOR: Through Listening program in your classroom
SIGN: RFB&D Learning Through Listening
NARRATOR: helps break down this barrier to
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NARRATOR: efficiently and effectively unlock books for students.
GRAPHIC: Key turns and reveals RFB&D Learning Through Listening beneath
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NARRATOR: Using the Learning Through Listening program is easy
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NARRATOR: and flexible.
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NARRATOR: Listening centers, as shown here, can be used by groups
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NARRATOR: without headphones
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NARRATOR: as well as individuals with headphones.
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NARRATOR: Recorded materials are available for any subject
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NARRATOR: at any grade level.
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Voice 1: They can pop those earphones on,
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Voice 1: open that book and follow along, and it just
HEAD SHOT with GRAPHIC: Nancy Sample, Teacher, Georgia
Ms. Sample: makes reading so much easier for them. It frees up that, that inner struggle. It allows them to appreciate and enjoy books.
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NARRATOR: Whether in your inclusive classroom, or resource room, the process is similar.
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NARRATOR: While other students are reading from their textbooks,
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NARRATOR: some students listen through headphones to the digitally recorded text
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NARRATOR: from RFB&D’s library,
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NARRATOR: sometimes following along in the printed text
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NARRATOR: to support multisensory learning.
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NARRATOR: The student hears a human voice,
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NARRATOR: which is a recording of an experienced and
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NARRATOR: highly trained volunteer reader from one
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NARRATOR: of RFB&D’s facilities around the country.
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NARRATOR: Controls on the player are used to easily
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NARRATOR: and directly access or bookmark
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NARRATOR: specific pages, chapters and sections of a book,
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NARRATOR: and variable speed control without voice distortion
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NARRATOR: enables each student to work
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NARRATOR: at his or her own pace.
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Voice 2: Incorporating the RFB&D books into the curriculum was so easy
HEAD SHOT of teacher: Carin Shaughnessy, Teacher, Texas, teacher is gesturing
Ms. Shaughnessy: I was excited about it, and I know that made them excited, and so when the first group would come in, I’d say "Oh!" Got a new thing for you, got a textbook. All right, here’s a new thing and I’d show them how to do it and they’d be off and running the next time.
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NARRATOR: PC and Macintosh software is an alternative to the free standing players.
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NARRATOR: Since many classrooms are already equipped with computers,
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NARRATOR: this is a cost-effective
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NARRATOR: option for today’s
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NARRATOR: classroom technology.
Voice 3: It is extremely easy to use in the classroom.
HEAD SHOT with GRAPHIC: Tracy Miller, Teacher, Chicago
Ms. Miller: RFB&D has CDs. You just put the CD into the machine. You can pretty much go anywhere you need to, in the book,
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Ms. Miller: and by it being a CD, it goes right there,
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Ms. Miller: so it’s really quick to get to where you need to go.
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Ms. Miller: I think that’s great.
HEAD SHOT with GRAPHIC: David Hall, Teacher, Georgia
Mr. Hall: RFB&D is an amazing tool. It allows the kids to reach their full potential.
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NARRATOR: Because learning through listening is an individual and unobtrusive accommodation, it’s the perfect tool for the inclusive classroom.
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NARRATOR: Students with print disabilities can participate in the same assignments at the same time
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NARRATOR: as their classmates.
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NARRATOR: Research conducted with students who use audiobooks shows that there are social benefits
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NARRATOR: and an increase
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NARRATOR: in self-esteem that can often make a critical difference in student development, a difference that often causes the student to become
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NARRATOR: more open to the act of reading.
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NARRATOR: Using RFB&D’s Learning Through Listening program requires a membership. There are two types of membership.
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NARRATOR: Institutional membership for schools
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NARRATOR: and Individual membership for personal use.
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NARRATOR: Both offer a comprehensive array
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NARRATOR: of textbooks, tools and support.
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NARRATOR: Purchasing an institutional membership provides a school or school district access to RFB&D’s digital library
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NARRATOR: as well as training and support for implementing the program.
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NARRATOR: Individual membership enables the student to get the audio textbooks
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NARRATOR: he or she needs and use them exclusively,
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NARRATOR: wherever and whenever the need arises,
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NARRATOR: and allows them to reinforce and review the content learned at school.
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NARRATOR: They can also take advantage of other RFB&D library services
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NARRATOR: such as bibliographic searches
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NARRATOR: and book recording requests.
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NARRATOR: The program’s effectiveness has been well-documented.
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NARRATOR: A study completed by Johns Hopkins University of students diagnosed
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NARRATOR: with a print disability in grades 9-12 found a
GRAPHIC: “38% increase in content acquisition” Johns Hopkins University
NARRATOR: 38 percent increase in content acquisition when RFB&D’s Learning Through Listening program was used.
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NARRATOR: Another study by Rutgers University,
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NARRATOR: conducted over an entire school year with students in grades
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NARRATOR: 4 through 8, demonstrated that
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NARRATOR: students in the inclusive setting who used Learning Through Listening
FADE to GRAPHIC: “Significant increases in reading rate & fluency” Rutgers University
NARRATOR: made statistically significant increases in their reading rate and fluency.
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NARRATOR: Those skills have been identified by the National Reading Panel as two of the
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NARRATOR: building blocks of basic reading skills.
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NARRATOR: From the special ed classroom
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NARRATOR: to the resource center,
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NARRATOR: inclusive classroom
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NARRATOR: and home,
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NARRATOR: RFB&D’s Learning Through Listening
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NARRATOR: program
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NARRATOR: has demonstrated proven results
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NARRATOR: that really make the difference
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NARRATOR: in the life and achievement of a student.
HEAD SHOT with Graphic: Lloyd Brown, Teacher, Chicago
Mr. Brown: RFB&D is hope for our kids. At least now they can begin to see that someone is really concerned about them learning to read and providing them with an opportunity.
HEAD SHOT with GRAPHIC: Karen Tereli, Media Specialist, Florida
Ms. Terali: I love the program, I really do, and I’m so proud of these kids, and I’m so excited for them, because to see them smiling and glowing for the first time, is the best thing we could ever ask for.
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NARRATOR: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
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NARRATOR: Unlocking the printed word and changing
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NARRATOR: the lives of thousands of students,
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NARRATOR: teachers and
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NARRATOR: parents across the nation
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NARRATOR: with Learning Through Listening.
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TRAVELING SIGN: Graphic of RFB&D logo forward, above www.rfbd.org
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