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Conference November 2013MTM and Swedish Daisy Consortium

• 1. What are we aiming for?• 2. What do we do and how do we do it?• 3. What do we accomplish?• 4. Lessons learned and what to be done?

What I am going to talk about:

• ”Equal access to knowledge, events (experiences) and participation”

• - Knowledge (textbooks, newspapers,..)• - Events (fiction, cartoons,..)• - Participation (study- and occupational services)

1. What are we aiming for?

• Attracting users (the more the better)• A number of varied titles and services (meet the users

expectations)• Anywhere, anytime, any mode• - Braille (very classic, very few)• - CD (classic, but strong)• - Download (maturity)• - Streaming (gazelle of the future?)• - Synthetic speech (more, faster, cheaper and

immature)

2. What and how?

Users 2009-2013

67% of est. 12-19 dyslectic youth*

Population: 531.284

Est. Dyslectic: 21.251

Nota: 14.298

* Source: Danmarks Statistik, FOLK1 2012, VIHS

Loans 2009-2013*

* Avg loans/year: 1.2 m

• Vision impaired persons: • - over the last 30 years: strong downturn in

number of blind persons that completes an education beyond basic general education

• - decline between 12 and 30 percentage points, dependent of level of education

• Labour participation ratio, handicapped: 47 pct, non handicapped: 78 pct.

3. Accomplished? Some facts, hmm?!

Education 21 y.o.

Register survey

Source: Register data

Positive correlation between use of audiobooks and homework habits

vertical: do you ever listen to an audiobook? horisontal: how often do you do homework?

Source: Nota (2010) http://www.nota.nu/node/506

• Successfull in attracting new users• Provision of services and products quite good• But,• We know a lot about ”what” and ”how”• And little about ”why”• We need (far) more evidence• Strong collaboration needed (international and across

institutions and businesses)• Passivity! How do we overcome the ”non-reading-

attitude” of young dyslexics?

Lessons learned and what to do?