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MDE-LIO has an opening for an Education Consultant for Visually Impaired to work in Lansing. This person will consult with and provide technical assistance to school districts, administrators, teachers, parents, paraprofessionals, and other service providers to help them...

Get a broad overview of MDE-LIO’s upcoming events right at your fingertips! Our new printable 2019-2020 Blind/Visually Impaired and Deaf/Hard of Hearing event calendars feature workshops, classes, conferences, and other events that will be held through spring 2020.

Although the new school year has just begun, MDE-LIO would like to encourage districts to start thinking about submitting textbook requests for next school year.

When a district submits an early request, MDE-LIO staff has adequate time to produce the book and get...

MDE-LIO wants to promote students’ interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields! To do this, we are partnering with Deaf Kids Code, Amazon, the Michigan Department of Civil Rights Division on Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing (DODDBHH),...

A record number of registrations were received for this year’s summer reading program, A Universe of Stories, which ended in early August.

Forty-four individuals signed up to receive a summer reading kit, according to the Michigan Braille and Talking Book Library...

Is your child in a summer reading slump? We’ve got you covered: Forty books have been added to our Unified English Braille (UEB) Literacy Expansion Program.

To order a book, view the inventory PDF on the...

As the school year ends, MDE-LIO encourages teachers to return unused American Printing House for the Blind (APH) products so they can be available for others to borrow. Due to the high value of APH products, we would like to remind teachers to properly package every...

If you order braille textbooks for students from MDE-LIO, you and your students might start noticing that the text and accompanying graphics are extra crisp.

MDE-LIO recently began using four new American Thermoform machines, which are used to reproduce braille...

This summer, 35 Michigan libraries will participate in the Braille Enhanced StoryWalk® program, giving children and their families a chance to read books via braille or written text as they walk along an outdoor path. MDE-LIO's braille production team will provide the...