Our Education Services Division provides textbooks and testing materials to elementary- and secondary-school students in 43 states and two Canadian provinces. We transcribe more than 2,200 textbooks, tests, and ancillary materials annually, and we emboss more than 450,000 pages of braille educational materials. That’s why National Braille Press is one of the nation’s largest providers of textbooks and educational materials for blind children.
We focus in particular on math and science textbooks, because the demand for math and science textbooks in braille, especially at the high school level, far outstrips the nationwide capacity to supply them. Many of the nation's blind students are not being adequately served, and the single greatest need our Education Services Division addresses is the need to get math and science textbooks into the hands of more students, more promptly.
Testing materials are important because they require a particularly high level of skill to produce effectively. Transcribing testing materials requires that we rethink every question — especially those with graphical content — to make them understandable to blind children. Many of our testing materials are for standardized tests, like the SATs, that are administered to young people across the country, and we have been consistently praised for the quality and accuracy of our work in this area.
