Metropolitan Washington Ear
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The Metropolitan Washington Ear is a multi-media reading service for the blind
and visually impaired of Greater Washington, D.C.
The Metropolitan Washington Ear offers two main services. The first is a radio reading service where volunteers read newspapers and other publications over a sub-frequency broadcast that is picked up by a network of special, distributed radios. The Washington Ear also offers an innovative Dial-IN newspaper and magazine service where volunteers read publications in their entirety into a computer where the information is stored. The articles and publications can be accessed using a standard touch tone telephone and become available the moment the article is finished.
The Washington Ear has more than 400 volunteers who read local and national publications such as the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, People Magazine, USA Today
and Sports Illustrated
.
The Metropolitan Washington Ear is located at 12061 Tech Rd, Silver Spring, Maryland
20904.
Anyone with a physical or visual limitation who wishes to sign up for the Washington Ear service can call the offices at (301) 681-6636 or visit www.washear.org.
Blindness
Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...
and visually impaired of Greater Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
The Metropolitan Washington Ear offers two main services. The first is a radio reading service where volunteers read newspapers and other publications over a sub-frequency broadcast that is picked up by a network of special, distributed radios. The Washington Ear also offers an innovative Dial-IN newspaper and magazine service where volunteers read publications in their entirety into a computer where the information is stored. The articles and publications can be accessed using a standard touch tone telephone and become available the moment the article is finished.
The Washington Ear has more than 400 volunteers who read local and national publications such as the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, People Magazine, USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
and Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...
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The Metropolitan Washington Ear is located at 12061 Tech Rd, Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It had a population of 71,452 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth most populous place in Maryland, after Baltimore, Columbia, and Germantown.The urbanized, oldest, and...
20904.
Anyone with a physical or visual limitation who wishes to sign up for the Washington Ear service can call the offices at (301) 681-6636 or visit www.washear.org.