Who is eligible to use the e-books in the Accessible Book Collection?
Bookshare.org has an excellent explanation on eligibility and certifier qualifications. Therefore we are linking to their website for further explanation. However, Bookshare explicitly denies eligibility to persons whose reading disability is a result of autism. We do not. Persons with autism may qualify if their autism is physical or organic in nature. It is our position that autism is organic and therefore is physical in nature and, furthermore, it can result in a reading disability. So if it determined by a qualified individual that the person with autism has a reading disability and their reading disability is a consequence of the person’s autism that person would be eligible to use the e-books found on the Accessible Book Collection website.
