Arne Kyrkjebø
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Services in Norway

Arne Kyrkjebø - Head of production Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille (NLB)

Juridical foundation

Copyright law Reading disabled access to adapted material (leisure reading/text books)

Education laws Right to a adapted training situation

Governmental social service supplies citizens with disabilities adaptive technology/equipment Reading disabled: Must be diagnosed Dyslectic

Norwegian school system

• Ground school(6-11 years)
• Junior High School(12-15 years)
• High School(16-19 years)
• College/Universities(19+ years)

Available text books in DAISY format

Huseby kompetansesenter: National provider of DAISY text books
Goal: Cover 3rd - 12th grad.
Visually impaired: Legal right to adapted materials in all topics
Reading disabled: Production right

Prior:
Titles (series) with substantial market share
Subjects containing substantial share of reading
Series
Requests
Topics with few available accessible books.

DAISY material

• School initiate/diagnose, appreciate needs,
• School order DAISY books on behalf of the pupil (web-based)
• Schools guarantee that the pupil is entitled.
• Fee: USD 20 pr book/pupil.
• Service: DAISY - Audio/NCC only

Statistic from Huseby kompetansesenter

Number of schools

2006/07

Ground/junior High 1 455

High School 235

2008/09

Ground/junior High 1 775

High School 327

% of all schools

Ground/junior High 54,3 %

High School 51,9 %

Available titles:1 423 (+180)
Users: 9 797 (+ 400)
1,5 % of total (potential group: 3-5 %)

Local solution at school

• School responsible for an adaptive school situation.
• No national standard, local initiatives
• National resource centers
• Success factors
  • Rich/poor local community - ability
  • Technology skills at the school
  • Resource persons ? knowledge about adaptive technology/reading problems
  • Parents

Local community
School
Resource personal
Resource Centers
Teacher
Social welfare
Remedies. Requires a diagnose
Pupi
Family

Social welfare

• Computer
• Software. TTS, reading pens

School

• Computer
• TTS, reading pens,
• Writing programs with spell check and dictionaries
• Scanning
• Simple production of DAISY-books
• Diagnose/Training

College/University responsible for adaptive solutions NLB supplies

NLB

DAISY

Visually impaired

Reading disabled

Right to production

Right to borrow existing text books

Visually impaired NLBs primary group

• NLB supplies text books. Normally not articles, compendium
• Formats supplied by NLB
  • DAISY 50/50 Audio only/Full text
  • E-tekst
  • Braille (minor market)

Local service

Norwegian law: School responsible for an adapted learning situations

Each college obliged to have a student service supplying students with need for adaptive solutions.
Big differences in level of service

Student service

• Diagnose
• Advising/Information
• Supplying hardware/software or initiate actions to get equipments
• Local production (Pure scanning or/and producing DAISY material
• Initiatives to make material accessible at Campus

Planned improvement

• More time-/cost efficient production lines for DAISY-books
• Ingredients: Pipeline, TTS, external production of production files
• Nordic cooperation in exchanging books/production files
• NLB makes centralized web-based production tools available for schools. (Pipeonline)
• The schools can order production of material that will be produced in NLBs production line. Cost-model not ready
• Local production of accessible material