Taping for the Blind is located inside Loop 610 just east of the Galleria near the intersection of Westheimer and Weslayan.
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Who We Are
Taping For The Blind, Inc. is an independent, non-profit educational organization with a mission to TURN SIGHT INTO SOUND, enriching the lives of individuals with visual, physical and perceptual disabilities. We are funded by corporations and foundations, listeners and individuals like you.
Some of Our Numbers
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Volunteer pool of more than 200
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Total volunteering hours averages over 18,000 per year
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More than 3,500 radio receivers currently on loan
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Broadcast range of 33 counties in Texas
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Staff of six
A Brief History
Taping For The Blind, Inc. was founded in 1967 to read material not available through other sources onto standard audio cassettes in our custom recording division. In 1978, Houston Taping For The Blind Radio (HTBR), a radio reading service, signed on the air. HTBR broadcasts 24 hours daily. HTBR offers the Houston Chronicle and The Wall Street Journal daily, plus several dozen popular magazines and best-selling books are read on the air.
In January 1993, Taping For The Blind, Inc. began a new service: Description for the Blind sm, (DB sm), which is the art of talking pictorially. Volunteers provide audio descriptions of visual elements of theater performances, IMAX movies, museum exhibits, television programs and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.