CandLE Books powered by Mind Express
‘CandLE Books’ is a new digital reading platform with built-in accessibility features, enabling AAC users to independently control their reading. We have partnered with Jabbla, to provide software compatible with eye-gaze, switches, joysticks, and touch-screen devices. Additionally, we have collaborated with several publishers across the UK to make commercially available books more accessible.
The goal of CandLE Books is to empower users to independently access their reading—from selecting a book and turning pages to controlling audio output, highlighting text, bookmarking pages, and closing the book.
As part of its launch, CandLE Books proudly announces a collaboration with Every Cherry Publishing, bringing curated collections of commercially available books into an accessible digital format for AAC users. Every Cherry meet the pressing need for authentic representation and accessibility in children’s literature, ensuring that people of all abilities and backgrounds can find stories that they’re not only able to read but can also enjoy with ease.
CandLE Books and Every Cherry’s collaboration empowers students to take control of their reading journey. By eliminating physical barriers to books, we are not just promoting accessibility, we’re opening up a world of imagination, learning, and self-expression.
CandLE has spent many years developing strategies to remove barriers to learning for students who use AAC, with a strong focus on literacy skills.
Developing reading and writing skills allows for future participation in a broader curriculum, expands communication freedom, and encourages imagination. Reading also improves cognitive development, fosters emotional growth, boosts language skills, and strengthens connections with family members, friends, and classmates.
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