Books For All Scotland

Overview of original project

Books for All is being led by CALL Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Government.

The project aims to help local authorities, teachers and other practitioners provide adapted learning materials in accessible, alternative formats for pupils who have difficulties reading ordinary printed books.

The project is doing this through:

Supporting education authorities to meet their duties under Equality and additional support for learning legislation.
Enhancing copyright exemption so that many more print disabled pupils can benefit from accessing print materials in a format that supports their needs.
CALL Scotland’s Books for All web site which has advice on finding, using and making books in accessible formats.
The Books for All Scotland database, which will allow the sharing of adapted learning materials.
Working with producers of accessible resources across Scotland, and publishers, to share accessible copies of books.

Print Disability

All pupils with a print disability can benefit from adapted materials in accessible formats.

In Scotland people with a print disability are those who cannot obtain access to information in a print format because they:

are blind or vision impaired;
have physical disabilities which limit their ability to hold or manipulate information in a printed form;
have perceptual or other disabilities which limit their ability to follow a line of print or which affect their concentration;
cannot comprehend information in a print format due to insufficient literacy or language skills (Witcher, S. (2006) Report of the Disability Working Group. Scottish Executive. ISBN: 0-7559-5141- 7).

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