Tape Aids for the Blind

About us

Tape Aids for the Blind is a free national library & Aadio production service for the blind, vision impaired & print disabled. Tape Aids is a registered non-profit organisation dedicated to providing FREE audio library and book production services for persons with difficulty reading. Since 1958 Tape Aids for the Blind has been committed to serving the needs of people with serious sight problems.

Vision
That all blind or print handicapped South Africans shall have the right to read in the language of their choice

Mission
To produce and provide recreational and educational books and magazines on tape, for blind and print-handicapped people free of charge

Our work
• Tape Aids for the Blind provides reading material in all eleven languages to satisfy the language diversity in South Africa.
• Our books travel postfree and some 2000 books are received and despatched daily.
• Our library has in excess of 37 000 audio titles and this service has become a living force for education and culture, serving the reading needs of all who are unable to read in the normal manner.
• The main circulation library processes over 5000 audio books per day and members can also download audio books from this website.
• Our education outreach initiatives provide multilingual Hear-to-Read oral resources for early childhood development and our Talking e-Books overcome literacy, comprehension, pronunciation and textbook dilemmas through the provision of ´spoken word´ versions of school books and lessons.
• e have talking books in all 11 official languages, playback machines to play our books and mini-libraries situated in homes for the aging, hospitals and schools for special needs.

Elza-Lynne Kruger is the National Executive Director of Tape Aids for the Blind.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.