Audio Description of Live Theater

Audio-Reader provides trained Audio Describers for live theater events in Kansas City and Lawrence.

Visually impaired patrons check out a ...

Audio-Reader Staff

The staff at Audio-Reader would love to hear from you! Click "More on this product" below to see contact information ...

Become an Audio-Reader Volunteer

Audio-Reader volunteers include high school and college students, teachers, doctors, homemakers, retirees, and many others. They have a diversity of ...

FUN Facts

1. Audio-Reader was the second radio reading service ever established in the world and was the first reading service to ...

History of Audio-Reader

Established in 1971, Audio-Reader was one of the first radio reading services in the world. A longtime community philanthropist, Petey ...

Internet Listening / Download Programs

Our live radio broadcasts are also offered via a password protected internet stream. Updated weekly, the archives allow you to ...

Multimedia Reporting Project

A project by KU student Katherine Mulder with an article, a photo and a video about Audio-Reader from Fall 2007. ...

Radio Reading Service

The free Radio Reading Service is for anyone who has difficulty reading standard printed material. This service broadcasts 24 hours ...

Request an Audio-Reader Presentation

To schedule an Audio-Reader presentation to learn more about our free services and programs for the blind and visually impaired, ...

Sensory Garden

The garden on the grounds of the Baehr Audio-Reader center in Lawrence is filled with flowers, herbs, and accesories to ...

Share the gift of sight through sound

Have you ever considered what it might be like to be blind in a world of printed material?

Special Request Recording

Items 100 pages or less may be requested to be recorded onto a cassette or CD and mailed directly to ...

Telephone Reader

The Lions Telephone Reader is a computerized information system which allows a person to read the Kansas City Star, TV ...

Who may receive Audio-Reader's free services?

Any person whose eyesight or physical condition make it difficult or impossible to read a newspaper, book or other printed ...