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Alternate Formats Collection for Students with Perceptual Disabilities
Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning provides educational support services to Manitoba students with perceptual disabilities.
These supports are intended to provide students with the resources that are required to allow them to participate in educational programs along with their peers.
Alternate Formats Collection
(Audio, Braille, Large Print, Electronic Text)
The collection is comprised of textbooks and other required classroom readings, as well as supplemental reading materials. When a requested text is not available from the on-site collection, a search will be conducted to see if it is available from another collection. If it is not available, production of the resource will be considered.
Resources are loaned without charge for the entire school year or any portion thereof, to students attending schools in Manitoba.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
In order to provide access to a much larger number of alternate format resources, the Alternate Formats Collection utilizes the reciprocal loan services of many other collections across Canada. Most of these specialized collections cannot be accessed by individual borrowers from out-of-province except through a request made on a student's behalf from their own provincial education resource centre.
Production of Alternate Format Materials
When a requested alternate format is not available from our collection or other collections, production of the requested resource will be considered.
Please see the Production Services page for further details.
Services for Students Who are Blind or Visually Impaired
A team of Consultants for the Blind/Visually Impaired provides support services on a province-wide basis to students who are blind or visually impaired.
Manitoba Vision Screening Program
The vision screening program is coordinated by school divisions with support (training, equipment loans, repairs and data collection) from Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning. It is intended to identify, as early as possible, school age students who may have undetected vision difficulties.
Alternate Format Materials for Post-Secondary Students
Post-Secondary students who are registered at a Manitoba University or College and have a documented perceptual disability are eligible to receive their required textbooks in the alternate format they require (braille, large print, electronic text or audio).
Online Catalogue
The Alternate Formats Collection catalogue is a listing of alternate format materials housed on the 2nd floor of 1181 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg and in our online collection. Alternate formats include braille, large print, audiobooks (mp3 download or CD) and electronic text (pdf, word and epub files).
