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Learning Ally Audiobook Solution® Eligibility Guide

The Learning Ally Audiobook Solution is a proven resource that can be used in any classroom or at home to empower qualified learners with a reading deficit to reach their potential.

What Is a Reading Deficit?

A reading deficit is determined by a student’s inability to keep up with content due to an impairment in at least one of the areas listed below. Students who are blind or visually impaired, have a physical disability that prevents them from reading standard print, or are designated as multilingual learner, autism, ADHD, or having an IEP/504 should also be considered for eligibility based on the outlined criteria.

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Decoding

  • Phonological awareness
  • Phonemic awareness
  • Orthographic awareness
  • Oral language
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Fluency

  • Automaticity
  • Fluency
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Comprehension

  • Syntax
  • Semantics
  • Verbal reasoning
  • Verbal working memory
  • Visual working memory
  • Long term memory
  • Attention
  • Vocabulary

Who Can Determine Eligibility?

Eligibility is quick and easy, and can be provided by an educator or other professional.

Qualified Educators in Schools

  • General Education Teachers
  • Tutors
  • Reading Specialists
  • Special Education Teachers
  • Learning Disability, Dyslexia or Resource Specialists
  • School Psychologists
  • Educational Diagnosticians
  • Child Study Teams
  • Teachers of the Visually Impaired
  • Speech Language Pathologists
  • Physical and Occupational Therapists

Qualified Evaluators Outside of Schools

  • Reading Specialists
  • Tutors
  • Doctors of Medicine or Osteopathy
  • Neurologists
  • Clinical Psychologists
  • Ophthalmologists
  • Optometrists
  • Osteopathy Psychiatrists
  • Registered Nurses
  • Speech Language Pathologists
  • Physical and Occupational Therapists
  • Professional Staff of Hospitals, Institutions
  • Public or Social Welfare Agencies

Find a qualified evaluator outside of school.

Use this directory to find a reading specialist in your area who can help determine if your child would benefit from interventions.

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Why Do We Have Eligibility Criteria?

Learning Ally is able to offer our human-read audio textbooks and literature titles under a special provision of the U.S. Copyright law (17 U.S.C. § 121, et seq., Marrakesh exemption). To be eligible to receive our solution under this special provision, a person’s reading or perceptual deficit or disability needs to be determined by a Qualified Educator or Qualified Evaluator with experience making such determinations.