Episcopalian for the Blind
Diocesan Press Service. August 7, 1964 [XXIII-14]
As a free service to blind people of the Church, National Council's Home Department, with the cooperation of The Episcopalian, will distribute a Talking Book edition of the magazine beginning in October.
For many years The Church Herald For The Blind (published by The Home Department) and Forward Day by Day (Forward Movement Publications) have been provided in Braille. These materials will continue to fill a need, but the greatest number of blind people do not read Braille. It is difficult to learn and it has been widely replaced by the use of recorded materials. Based on the incidence of blindness in the general population, some 6,000 Episcopalians are, by the legal definition, blind. Not more than 850 or so subscriptions to one or more of the available blind publications are on record.
All requests for subscriptions should be addressed to: The Home Department, Episcopal Church Center, 815 Second Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10017.
Talking Book machines (16 2/3 rpm) are provided free of charge to all legally blind people through the state agencies designated as distributors by the Library of Congress - Division for the Blind. Legal blindness may be simply defined as the inability to read ordinary newsprint even with the help of corrective lenses.