Illinois School for the Visually Impaired serves as a statewide resource offering students with visual impairments quality educational services which will enable them to become personally productive and self-sufficient citizens. ISVI provides educational programming for children from birth to 21 years of age. ISVI’s strong academic programming emphasizes independence and vocational skills, instruction in Braille, daily living skills, orientation and mobility training, and assistive technology. ISVI students enjoy a variety of extracurricular and dormitory activities, including track, cheerleading, swimming, wrestling, goalball, forensics, yearbook, student council, and choir.
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An easy step-by-step look at how to use TextAloud software with the Bookshare service. Bookshare works to make the world of print accessible to people with visual impairments, physical disabilities and learning disabilities, and qualifying individuals may use the service to download books, textbooks and newspapers in a compressed, encrypted file. They can then read the material using adaptive technology such as TextAloud text to speech software. In just minutes, this video will show you how to use TextAloud to split up your Bookshare download into chapters, and then export them to spoken audio files.