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Portal Tutoring's Resource Page
Welcome to Portal Tutoring's Resource Page. Here you will find links to resources which supplement the tutoring one receives and may be useful for those needing information about blindness or technology. They are divided into several categories. This page is likely to change often as more resources are added and obsolete links are removed, so please check back to see what's new.
Portal Tutoring's Free Newsletter
Portal Tutoring offers a free newsletter to keep students, and other interested individuals current with what is happening at Portal Tutoring. To access the latest of these newsletters, choose the link below.
Portal Tutoring's Materials
Portal Tutoring offers a set of basic tutorials on computer concepts called Mini Blinds. These thirteen tutorials are available in four formats: Microsoft Word, braille ready file, audio files and hard copy braille. For complete information, go to the Bookstore link in the blue navigation bar.
Please feel free to download the free file Email Dos And Don'ts Free download This file is freely given as an example of the type of tutorials which are available from Portal Tutoring.
We are also pleased to offer a text book designed for the beginning computer user. Entitled Introduction To Computers, this book can be purchased from Portal Tutoring. See the Bookstore for further details.
Portal Tutoring is pleased to announce that we now have a selection of audio classes. Entitled Sound Foundations, they come in two series: Basic and System Access Mobile Networ. See the Bookstore for details.
Portal Tutoring is pleased to present its writing curriculum. Included is a group of pamphlets on writing small documents and a text book Writing For Today Check the bookstore page for details.
This link leads to practice exercises for students of Portal Tutoring. They are fake forms and the like for practice only. These may change so you might want to check this link often. Portal Tutoring Exercises for students
Internet Resources
the following is a list of resources for materials and tutorials which can supplement anything from Portal Tutoring. These may change as new resources become available, so be sure to check this section of the web page often.
Tutorials and Training
- Access Technology Institute
- Bookshare, fee based source for electronic texts
- Freedom Scientific training materials and webinars
- NV Access makers of NVDA, has tutorials
- Cisco Academy for the Visually Impaired, source for classes in technology
- National Library Service for the Blind, Library of Congress, USA (free to U.S. residents)
- The National Library for the Blind, BARD (Braille Audio Reading Download) site
- National Braille Press, source for hard copy Braille and electronic books and magazines
- Paid library for the print disabled
- Paid source for etext books
- NFB Newsline source for free newspapers and periodicals in U.S.
- Paid source for audio books and magazines
- Baen Books, Science Fiction collection, free to print impaired
- Oldest site for Public Domain etexts.
- The Samizdat Store for public domain books in collections for sale at reasonable prices
- Seedlings Braille books for kids
- AI Squared, manufacturers of Zoomtext, magnification software.
- Freedom Scientific, manufacturer of Jaws, Magic, Oben Book and more.
- Humanware, manufacturers of BrailleNoteTouch, BrailleNote Apex, magnification products, Victor Reader Stream, Victor Reader Stratus and more.
- NVDA, Non-Visual Desktop Access, a free screen reader
- System Access To Go, free screen reader for the blind.
- The Accessible World
- American Foundation for the Blind
- American Printing House for the Blind
- Good site for blogs on technology for the blind.
- Equal Access to Software and Information
- Everything Blind
- Web Portal for all things blind for India
- Fred's Head Companion Database for blind
- A source for general information about low vision and blindness
- Source for good health tips for vision
- Source for eyes-free fitness routeens and information
- source for information on preventable blindness
- Ocusource for vision impaired and blind seniors
- Source for tactile overlays for appliances
- Project Starfish, a source for employment online and training
- Easter Seals Project Action Site
- American Printing House for the Blind
- Bookshare, a paid library for the blind, over 500,000 books available in etext, braille and computer voiced audio, is a distributer of NIMAS Books.
- The Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired, correspondence courses
- National Braille Press
- Formerly Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic
- O'Reilly Publishing, computer books in electronic text and in print
Books, Books and More Books
The following is a list of resources for obtaining both audio and etext books. Some of these resources are paid and some are not.
Adaptive Technology Resources
the following are links to vendors of various products for the blind which are of a technical nature. Most of them are either hardware or software which has been adapted or designed especially for the blind.
Web Portals, Centers for Information
The following are web portals, large sites whose business it is to collect and disseminate information on subjects having to do with disability, medical treatment, access issues and more.
Education And Literature Resources .br
The following are resources for obtaining books and tutorials for educational purposes. There is some duplication here, but these sites are listed because they offer tutorials or text books as opposed to literature.
If you know of resources which should be added to this page, please do not hesitate to contact us, and we will place it on this page.
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