| Agency Detailed Information |
| Name: |
IRIS (Indiana Reading & Information Service) @ WFYI |
| Address: |
1630 N Meridian St |
| City: |
Indianapolis |
State: |
IN |
Zip: |
46202 |
| Email: |
awortman@wfyi.org |
| Web Site: |
www.wfyi.org |
| Telephone: |
Local: (317) 636-2020
Fax: (317) 633-7418 |
| Service Areas |
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Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Johnson, Marion
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| Services Provided to |
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Anyone with certified vision impairments that desire radio reading services can obtain it via their personal computer. Those that live within 30+/- miles of northwester Indianapolis via a special radio.
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| Detailed Services Description |
Those who live in a within 30+/- mile radius from northwestern Indianapolis are able to receive our radio broadcast.
Every day, IRIS broadcasts the regional newspapers and many other Indianapolis publications. Listeners are provided with special radio receivers FREE of charge to use as long as they are needed. One must live within about 30 miles of Indianapolis to receive the broadcasts and there is an application requiring medical or social certification of print impairment.
Sections of the Indianapolis Star as well as 17 other papers from around the state are read by IRIS volunteers.
Indiana Reading and Information Services also offers streaming audio through the World Wide Web. IRIS users outside of the 30+/- mile limit can listen to readings of local newspapers, periodicals and books anytime using their computers (subject to adequate internet access speed).
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