1865 Broadway
New York, NY 10023-7505
212-408-1200
212-408-1512 (Fax)
www.americanbible.org
E-mail: info@americanbible.org

Provides the Bible in braille, large print, and cassette, in English and Spanish. Call for ordering and price information.

P.O. Box 621
Bradenton, FL 34206
941-748-3031
941-748-2625 (Fax)
auroraministries.org
E-mail: tapes@auroraministries.org

Provides free audio Bibles to people throughout the world who are legally blind and print-handicapped.

P.O. Box 378
Liberty, MO 64069-0378
800-522-4253
877-882-4253 (Fax)
www.braillebibles.org
E-mail: info@braillebibles.org

Provides Bibles in braille, large print, and audio formats.

321 University Drive
P.O. Box 1830
Starkville, MS 39759
800-336-2232 (Toll free)
662-323-4999
www.careministries.org
E-mail: careministries@bellsouth.net

CARE Ministries, Inc. provides information, spiritual support, and community resources to people who are blind or visually impaired.

800-937-2264 (Toll free)
www.cbmus.org
E-mail: info@cbmus.org

Christian Blind Mission (CBM) is the oldest and largest ministry with the primary purpose of improving the quality of life for the blind and disabled living in the world's most disadvantaged societies.

CBM provides preventative, medical, rehabilitative, and educational services to millions of people each year. CBM supports more than 1,000 projects in 113 countries, and aid is available to all people regardless of religion, nationality, race, or gender.

CBM Worldwide Offices are located in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

4444 South 52nd Street
P.O. Box 6097
Lincoln, NE 68516-1302
402-488-0981
402-488-7582 (Fax)
www.christianrecord.org  
E-mail: info@christianrecord.org

Christian Record Services is an international organization serving blind and visually impaired individuals in approximately 80 countries worldwide and employs about 160 people throughout the United States and Canada.

They operate National Camps for Blind Children and provide free Christian publications and programs for people with visual impairments. Materials are available in braille, large print, and audio cassette.

7850 South U.S. Highway 1
P.O. Box 1162
Bunnell, FL 32110-8770
386-586-5885
No web site at this time

The Gospel Association for the Blind offers a wide range of topics including Bible studies, biographies, fiction and current issues, science, and music. Services are free and offered in print, cassette, or braille. Also operates a lending library and radio broadcasting.

5210 MacCorkle Avenue SW
South Charleston, WV 25309-1010
304-768-8876
www.icbminc.org

International Christian Braille Mission, Inc. (ICBM) produces and distributes New Testament Christian literature in formats readable by blind and visually impaired individuals. ICBM currently distributes material for evangelism and edification in approximately 20 countries worldwide, including England, Malawi, Thailand, India, Australia, Bangladesh, Cuba, and the United States.

Formerly Jewish Braille Institute of America
110 East 30th Street
New York, NY 10016
800-433-1531 (Toll free)
212-889-2525
212-689-3692 (Fax)
www.jewishbraille.org
E-mail: admin@jbilibrary.org

Provides the visually impaired, blind, physically handicapped, and reading disabled of all backgrounds and ages with books, magazines and cultural programs in audio (seven languages), large print and braille. JBI has a broad range of titles, with the largest collection of Jewish interest books for the blind and visually impaired. Free of charge to eligible persons.

13011 Doty Avenue
Hawthorne, CA 90250
866-98-BOOKS
www.kvisionbooks.com
E-mail: sales@kvisionbooks.com

An online source for books about Islam and Muslims. Audio and digital versions of the Koran and related materials are available.

P.O. Box 5000
Yucaipa, CA 92399
909-795-8977
909-795-8970 (Fax)
www.lbwinc.org
E-mail: lbw@lbwinc.org

Provides Christian books, pamphlets, and tracts in braille in 30 languages.

7550 Watson Road
St. Louis, MO 63119
888-215-2455 (Toll free)
314-918-0415
www.blindmission.org
E-mail: blind.mission@blindmission.org

The Lutheran Blind Mission Society (LBMS) encourages, trains, and support blind people and trains blind leaders and missionaries.

The Lutheran Library for the Blind has 4,000 braille, large print, and audiocassette religious tracts, publications, and religious education materials, which it loans free of charge.

1740 Eugene Street
White Bear Lake, MN 55110-3312
651-426-0469
www.users.qwest.net/~lbea
E-mail: lbea@qwest.net

The Lutheran Braille Evangelism Association is a non-profit ministry, founded in 1952 by the blind Lutheran pastor John Gustav Erickson. Its mission is to provide Scripture and other Christian materials to blind and sight-impaired persons throughout the world. Materials are available in braille, large print, audiotape, CD, and in digital format via BibleCourier, an electronic pocket Bible.

The Library of Congress
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
National office address:
1291 Taylor Street, NW
Washington, DC 20011
202-707-5100
202-707-0744 (TDD)
202-707-0712 (Fax)

Find Braille and Talking Books

The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), [link opens in new window]Library of Congress, administers the Braille and Talking Book Library Service, a free program that loans recorded and braille books and magazines, music scores in braille and large print, and specially designed playback equipment to residents of the United States who are unable to read or use standard print materials because of visual or physical impairment.

Local cooperating libraries throughout the United States mail NLS audiobooks, magazines, audio equipment, braille books, and braille magazines directly to enrollees at no cost. If you or someone you know is interested in receiving Talking Books, please click here to fill out a request form. Talking books and magazines and braille publications are delivered to eligible borrowers by postage-free mail and through a network of cooperative libraries. Religious publications include: Bibles, Other Scriptures, Liturgies, and Hymnals in Special Media.

Search the NLS catalog for braille and talking books, braille and large print sheet music, digital books, maps, and more.

Update:

On March 1, 2007, the National Library Service announced that C-1 and E-1 cassette players would no longer be produced. This gradual phase-out of cassette technology will make way for the production and distribution of digital talking books and players.

During the digital transition, NLS will continue to circulate and repair cassette book machines through the year 2011 until the digital transition is complete.

419 East Grand Avenue
Escondido, CA 92025
760-745-8105
www.talkingbibles.org
E-mail: info@talkingbibles.org

Talking Bibles gives non-readers and the blind access to the Bible in their native languages. Talking Bibles produces audio recordings of translated Scriptures in hundreds of languages and makes these recordings accessible in the form of Talking Bibles for millions of people around the world who cannot read.

A Lending Library for the Blind and Disabled
840 S. 192nd Street
Seatac, WA 98148-2208
206-243-7377
www.tapeministries.org
E-mail: tmnw@tapeministries.org

Tape Ministries Northwest is a lending library of wholesome, inspirational and Christian books on tape, including 1,251 Christian books, Decision Magazine, and Our Daily Bread monthly devotional. Tape Ministries mails tapes nationwide to people who are blind, visually impaired, and physically or developmentally disabled. All services are free.

www.lds.org

Vision Loss and Blindness Information includes the following resources:

• Ways to Help Those with Vision Loss
• Teaching Tips
• Additional Blindness Resources
• Additional Web Sites

Church publications are available in the following formats: Braille, Large Print, Half-Speed Audiocassettes, and CDs.

The General Disabilities Resource Center provides information on Leader and Teacher Resources, Family Resources, Scriptures and Quotes, Materials, and Frequently Asked Questions.

The Utah State Library for the Blind offers a range of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints materials in alternative formats.

This small bible (4.25 x 2.5 x .9 inches) speaks all the books of the New American Standard Bible, Old and New Testament, in a real human voice.You can jump from book to book, and chapter to chapter with the press of a button. The navigation buttons are extremely easy to use! You can listen to the human voice reading the bible through the Bible's excellent speaker, or through ear phones (INC).

The batteries are built into the unit. Unit operates on Solar Powered batteries and will last 2 or 3 years. It can be powered by direct sun or a 100 watt light bulb. It needs 6 to 8 hours of direct sun light to charge up batteries. Or can be charged from a 9 volt DC adapter (NI). Fully charged batteries will allow the unit to play for approximately 10 hours.

Choose your preferred language and version at time of purchase:

• English - King James Version
• English - New American Standard.
• Spanish - King James Version

$109.50 Click to Purchase

A charger for the Speaking Bible can be purchased separately:

$9.95 Click to Purchase * Charger for Talking Bible

154 East 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
800-637-9193 (Toll free)
212-473-7800
212-473-7801 (Fax)
www.xaviersociety.com
E-mail: Xaviersocietyfortheblind@yahoo.com

Provides free spiritual and inspirational Roman Catholic reading materials and lending library services in braille, large print, audiocassette, and digital formats.

As new translations of Scripture and readings and prayers for the Mass are approved, the Xavier Society will be ready to transcribe them.