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CORZINE IS HONORARY CHAIR OF NEW JERSEY’S 12th ANNUAL RECORD-A-THON
RFB&D’S volunteer celebration attracts Attorney General Zulima Farber and others
Princeton — Governor Jon S. Corzine will serve as honorary chair for the New Jersey Unit of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic’s (RFB&D) 12th annual Record-A-Thon to be held the week of May 1-6.
Corzine believes the organization’s mission to serve people who cannot effectively read standard print because of visual impairment, dyslexia or other physical disability is consistent with his recently stated commitment to, “making sure that the children of the State of New Jersey have the educational opportunities guaranteed to them under our Constitution. The State has an obligation to ensure that all children across the state receive a thorough and efficient education.”
New Jersey Attorney General Zulima V. Farber is among the celebrities volunteering to record textbooks for students with visual impairment, dyslexia or other physical disabilities that make reading standard text difficult during the celebration. New Jersey Network political reporter Jim Hooker, Pulitzer Prize winning poet C.K. Williams and space tourist Greg Olsen will join Farber and the nearly 400 regular volunteers who donate their time and talent at the New Jersey Unit’s studio in St. Joseph’s Seminary in Princeton.
RFB&D, a nonprofit volunteer organization, is the nation’s educational library of recorded textbooks. The organization serves more than 141,000 students from kindergarten through graduate school and beyond. The New Jersey Unit’s Educational Outreach Center provides services for nearly 500 New Jersey member school districts.
“We could not sustain our operation without the support of all the volunteers and local celebrities who believe, as we do, that education is a right, not a privilege,” says Stephanie Campbell, executive director of the New Jersey Unit of RFB&D. “The work our volunteers do requires a great deal of training and focus, but we take great satisfaction in knowing that every book RFB&D records represents another step forward for a student trying to meet his or her educational potential.”
Over the course of the Record-A-Thon at the New Jersey Unit, volunteers expect to significantly increase the week’s regular production, adding books to RFB&D’s CV Starr Learning Through Listening® Library located in the organization’s Princeton, NJ, headquarters. Nationwide, RFB&D depends on a corps of more than 7,100 volunteers to contribute to its one-of-a-kind collection of more than 109,000 textbooks in every grade level and subject area.
Recorded textbooks from RFB&D are unique because they are the only recorded textbooks that include full and complete descriptions of all graphic elements within a book, including pictures, photographs, charts, maps and graphs. Because of the complex and advanced nature of many of the titles requested by RFB&D members, recording volunteers are required to have a level of expertise in the fields they are assigned to read. A recent study by Johns Hopkins University concluded that students with learning disabilities using RFB&D’s AudioPlus® digitally recorded textbooks on CD improved content acquisition scores by 38%.
For more information about the New Jersey Unit and Record-A-Thon, visit www.rfbdnj.org or call 609-750-1830.
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