Here is a collection of links to adapted and alternative format books. Most are free, some have a fee. The type of format varies. For pay interactive books like Tumblebooks and Bookflix and professionally read audio book downloads check your local libraries web site; free access may be available with your library card. (This perma post updated March 4, 2010.) Another excellent list of online alternate format books is here.
Symbol Books
- Accessible Book Collection
- Adapted Learning search for "story"
- Askability Jokes and Stories
- Unity Adapted Book Downloads
- Learning Tools
- NYC School Adapted Books
- SET Symbol and PPT Books
- Slater Software Stories
- Symbol World Stories
- Audible
- Audible Kids
- Audiobooks for Free
- Book Box
- Candle Light Stories
- Kiddie Records
- Light Up Your Brain
- Loud Lit
- Literal Systems Youth
- Short Story Radio
- Storynory
- Teaching Books
- Zen Cast Classic Tales (New!!!)
- Book Box PDF
- E-books for Young Readers
- ESSPC Children's E-Books
- Free Classics
- Hyper Tech Media E-Books (new)
- ICDL
- Librivox Children
- Lit 2 Go
- The Rosetta Project
- Tonight's Bedtime Stories
- 3 Smart Monkeys - Indian Tales (New!!!)
- Aboriginal Tales (New!!!)
- Aesop Fables
- Animated Stories (New!!!)
- Book Box
- Croatation Tales of Long Ago (New!!!)
- Bookflix
- Fablevision
- Grimm's Fairytales (New!!!)
- Jatakkatha Buddist Tales (New!!!)
- Kid Thing
- KizClub Stories (New!!!)
- L'il Fingers Storybooks
- Reading is Fundamental Interactive Stories
- Robert Munsch
- Tumblebooks
- Sebastian Swan Online Books
- Silly Books
- Speakaboos
- Stories Online
- The Amazing Adventure Series
- Ziggity Zoom
- CAST Bookbuilder
- Create Talking Books with Clicker
- Creating Talking Books in Power Point
- UDL Book Builder
- Beantown Stories
- Big Books
- BookPals
- Browser Books
- Candle Light Stories
- Genie Books in Powerpoint
- Lookybook
- MisCositas
- Pete's Power Point
- Signed Stories NEW!!!!
- Tar Heel Reader
- Merpy Stories (New!!!)
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I was told that there are print books for children with low vision or visual impairments. Specifically, that the text on the pages is larger than usual and positioned in predictable and conventional places on the page. Popular children's books are reprinted, they are not electronic or audio.
ReplyDeleteI would like to research this more for my daughter, but don't know what search terms to use.
Any help would be appreciated!
Check out www.getepic.com for a great selection of eBooks and read aloud eBooks. The app EPIC! is also available across platforms - it has save my life with my intensive special needs students!
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