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Free Statewide Reading Service for Indiana’s Print-Impaired Citizens Marks 25 Years of Service

Indiana Reading and Information Services (IRIS), a free reading service that currently serves more than 9,000 print-impaired citizens statewide, is commemorating its 25th anniversary this year.

Through modern-day technology and the assistance of more than 400 active volunteers, IRIS affords individuals with visual, physical and learning limitations with access to daily readings of 18 Indiana newspapers, in addition to several popular magazines, books and national news publications. This free, around-the-clock communications link can be accessed online, over the telephone, or through a special radio receiver. There is an online application requiring “medical or social certification of print impairment” to participate. The service is free.

IRIS can be accessed the following ways:
Through special radio receivers provided by the station free of charge, as long as they are needed, if the listener lives within 45 miles of Indianapolis
Through streaming audio over the World Wide Web
On the telephone, via a voice message system, through the Nina Mason Pulliam Statewide Dialup

Publications read by IRIS volunteers include:
The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis Business Journal, NUVO Newsweekly and several regional daily newspapers
The New York Times and USA Today
Magazines and special interest publications on topics such as health, cooking, pets, history, religion, kids, science and sports
Great books
Current sales advertisements

For more information, please visit their Web site, or contact Amber Wortman, IRIS operations manager, at 317.715.2004.

For further details please contact us at 317.633.6325, or by e-mail at info@mealsonwheelsindy.org.

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