BuddyBooks and Bookshare
While BuddyBooks provides you with hundreds of books to choose from, having more options can greatly improve your BuddyBooks experience, and enhance your child’s engagement.
Bookshare is a free service that provides over 1 million fiction and non-fiction books to all qualified children. Bookshare is an initiative of Benetech, a nonprofit that empowers communities for social good. Bookshare operates in the U.S. under a copyright exemption—the Chafee Amendment—which grants nonprofit organizations (Bookshare) the ability to make books available to qualified children without publisher permission. Your child can read these books with BuddyBooks.
Bookshare accounts are only granted to qualifying individuals.
How to get a Bookshare account:
Child with Documented Visual/Physical/Reading Disability:
Sign up for a Bookshare account and submit documentation for approval
Child without a Documented Visual/Physical/Reading Disability:
NeuroLearning, a Bookshare partner, provides a screening app (iPhone/iPad/Android) which can be used to evaluate your child for Bookshare access. Using the app, your child completes a series of tests, and a doctor analyzes the results and sends you a report. If the doctor finds your child qualifies for Bookshare, he helps you obtain Bookshare access. It costs about $79.
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Learn more about the NeuroLearning screening app: https://neurolearning.com/dyslexiascreener/
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