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How to Apply for Service
The following persons are eligible for the program:
Persons whose visual impairment, with correction and regardless of optical measurement, is certified by a competent authority as preventing the reading of standard printed material.
Blind persons whose visual acuity, as determined by a competent authority, is 20/200 or less in the better eye with correcting lenses, or whose widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than 20 degrees.
Persons certified by a competent authority as unable to use standard printed materials as a result of physical limitations.
- In cases of blindness, visual disability, or physical limitations, "competent authority" is defined to include doctors of medicine or osteopathy, ophthalmologists, optometrists, registered nurses, therapists, and the professional staff of hospitals, institutions, and public or welfare agencies.
- In the absence of any of these, certification may be made by professional librarians or by any person whose competence under specific circumstances is acceptable to the Library of Congress.
Persons certified by a competent authority as having a reading disability resulting from organic dysfunction and of sufficient severity to prevent their reading of printed material in a normal manner.
- In the case of reading disability from organic dysfunction, competent authority is defined as doctors of medicine or osteopathy, who may consult with colleagues in associated disciplines.
The visual or physical disability may be either temporary or
permanent.
HOW TO APPLY
INDIVIDUAL APPLICATION
You may contact the Arizona Braille and Talking Book Library to obtain
a print application form, or
fill
out and print the online application form, or you may download
the application form (PDF).
MAIL TO:
Arizona Braille and Talking Book Library
1030 North 32nd Street
Phoenix, AZ 85008
Phone: 602-255-5578
Toll Free: 800-255-5578
Fax: 602-255-4312
Email
INSTITUTIONAL APPLICATION (including Schools serving qualified students)
You may contact the Arizona Braille and Talking Book Library to obtain
a print application form, or download one of the following:
Applications for students with a reading/learning disability (resulting
from organic dsyfunction) must be certified by a medical doctor.
DEMONSTRATION SITE APPLICATION
For libraries, nursing homes, hospitals and other institutions to demonstrate use of Talking Book Library players and audio books.
MEDICAL FACILITIES
Medical facilities with patients receiving long-term care lasting
a month or more. Examples: special hospital units treating burns,
cancer, comas, kidney dialysis; rehabilitation centers; and convalescent
centers.
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