RE: [IFLA-LPD] Quick question re dyslexia

Hi Karen

 

In New Zealand we are, although this is recent and we don't have a lot of uptake at the moment – we would be 99% serving blind and low vision people. Our copyright law around the exception is a bit interpretive, but our reading currently is that it includes people with dyslexia.

 

We did some casual comparisons of the definition of print disability as we considered eligibility for service over the past year and there seemed to be a lot of variation from org to org and country to country. A standard definition would be useful, although individual copyright laws would probably supersede that in the end anyway.

 

Thanks

Chris

 

 

Chris Pigott

Library Partnerships and Projects Manager

 

Blind Foundation

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From: Jelena Lesaja [mailto:jlesaja@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2016 4:02 a.m.
To: Keninger, Karen
Cc: ifla-lpd@infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: Re: [IFLA-LPD] Quick question re dyslexia

 

Apologies, in my previous mail I forgot to mention that I work in the Croatian library for the blind.

Jelena Lesaja

 

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Jelena Lesaja <jlesaja@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Karen,

around 85 percent of people we serve are blind and visually impaired, 10 percent are persons with dyslexia and 5 percent are people with other disabilities including cerebral paralysis.  When you isolate the number of users with dyslexia, you can say that in last three years it has climbed for 66 percent.

Best,

Jelena

 

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Keninger, Karen <kken@loc.gov> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

 

I have a quick question for you.

 

Are you serving people with perceptual disabilities such as dyslexia?

 

If so, what percentage of the people you serve have perceptual disabilities such as dyslexia, and what percentage are blind, visually impaired or physically disabled?

 

Thanks in advance for your responses.

 

 

 

Karen Keninger, Director

National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

Library of Congress

1291 Taylor Street NW

Washington, D.C. 20542

Telephone: +1-202-707-5104

Email: kken@loc.gov

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