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Funding and governance of library and information services for visually impaired people: international case studies

Part2:Country studies

The Netherlands

Services to print impaired people in relation to services to visually impaired people

Regarding special library services people with a print impairment are more or less added to the original target group (visually impaired). They have, however their own user organizations, are integrated in regular educational systems as much as possible. Dedicon is still discussing structural funding for provision of library services to print impaired people. Dyslexic students can make use of the Dedicon service. Other organisations mostly sell equipment and software, like the reading pen, kurzweil etc