VOICEcorps reading service

12/25/2025

Our VOICEcorps family wants to wish our listeners, volunteers, and community members a wonderful Christmas day and holiday season! 🙏🎄

While our studios are closed in observance, we are still bringing you the Dispatch being read live by our amazing volunteers donating their time, as well as special programming airing all day.

We hope these programs bring you comfort, company, and entertainment on this special day. Merry Christmas! 🎅🏻

Listen here ➡ https://voicecorps.org/listen/
or tell your Alexa smart speaker to “Play VOICEcorps!” 🗣



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12/24/2025

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
– Charles Dickens

VOICEcorps is proud to bring you special Christmas programming beginning at 5:00 PM today (Christmas Eve) that continues through 5:00 AM on Friday, December 26th! 🎅👏

Remember, we will have live readers on Christmas Day reading the Dispatch…we truly have the BEST volunteers! 💙

We hope that our programming brings you comfort, company, and all of the holiday feel-good vibes that we all need. Thank you for listening and have a very Merry Christmas! 🎄🙏

You can listen for free both on our website
✨http://voicecorps.org/listen/ ✨
or on your Amazon Alexa smart speaker!



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12/23/2025

The more you know: Low vision is defined as a visual impairment that cannot be fully corrected by glasses, contacts or even surgery and it affects millions of us in America.

This article from the University of Utah offers some tips on how to make navigating the world easier while dealing with low vision including using magnifiers, specialized keyboards and even filters for your eyeglasses. 👓

VOICEcorps is also a valuable tool in helping you navigate the world. We offer a FREE 24/7 broadcast of volunteer read news, articles, books, and even original programming! 🗣

Listen here 💙➡ https://voicecorps.org/listen/

Support us here 💙➡https://voicecorps.org/get-involved/ways-to-give/

People with low vision have access to a range of assistive devices designed to make everyday life more manageable.

12/20/2025

VOICEcorps offers a reading of The Reader’s Digest every Wednesday at 4PM.
We have good reason for bringing this up…other than to remind you to tune in! 😉
(Psst...listen here➡ https://voicecorps.org/listen/ )

They have recently published a list of the most iconic book set in each state. The A-Z structured list includes the pick for Ohio which is “Winesburg, Ohio” written by Sherwood Anderson. The book details life in a fictional small Ohio town and the challenges and loneliness the narrator experiences. 🌅

Do you agree with the pick? Disagree? Let us know your thoughts and comments down below after you check out the article!

(Writer’s note: I will be adding the Ohio pick to my list!) 💙

With this list of iconic books set in every state, you can tour the entire country—without ever leaving home.

12/18/2025

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: We are just ONE week out from Christmas Day! 😮🎄

This time of year has us at VOICEcorps feeling super nostalgic and has us wondering, what was your favorite gift you received for Christmas or during the winter holidays your family celebrated? Let us know in the comments down below! (Better yet, include a picture!) 🧸

VOICEcorps hopes that you and your family have a wonderful holiday where you can create new memories and continue loved traditions. If you are print disabled, make sure you tune in to VOICEcorps for all of the information and entertaining shows we provide this season and all year long!

Listen here ➡ https://voicecorps.org/listen/
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🗣️Tell Alexa to “Play VOICEcorps!”



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12/17/2025

The wild and wonderful: We may not be the biggest fans of “that state up north” here in Ohio, but you have to applaud this story of a wolverine who became the first to get a custom-made lens in his left eye following a cataract removal surgery! 👏

A wolverine named Edward who lives at the San Francisco Zoo became farsighted after the cataract surgery and believe it or not, a professor at The Ohio State University College of Optometry named Dr. Donald Mutti was called upon for his expertise in the matter! 😮

Good news can seemingly be hard to find in a negative-skewing news cycle world, which is exactly why we scour the web here at VOICEcorps to find these positive stories for our audience. Be sure to tune into our “Good News” program every Monday at 1:30 PM to start your week off right with some good vibes! 😌

Listen every day here➡ https://voicecorps.org/listen/

Edward, a 2-year-old wolverine at San Francisco Zoo & Gardens, is seeing better thanks to a first-ever novel lens corrective procedure on a wolverine’s eye.

12/15/2025

The more you know: To whom do we thank for our eye conditions? Genetics? Environment? Back luck? Well, it’s likely all of the above. 🧐

According to this article from VSP, if you have a parent with nearsightedness, you are already likely to be nearsighted yourself. If you don't spend enough time outdoors as a child, then you increase your chances even more. Glaucoma, cataracts and even color blindness can be passed down from our folks, while just simply aging and smoking up our risk for eye troubles. 🚭

VOICEcorps is here for our listeners with low vision, visual changes, no vision, and all print disabilities to make sure they are given the information they need to navigate a busy world. 🌎

Learn more about us, how to support us, and how to become a volunteer by visiting www.voicecorps.org

Are eye disorders genetic? Learn how your genes contribute to your vision, and discover other factors that contribute to eye conditions.

12/15/2025

To all of our listeners, volunteers and community members who celebrate, we wish you a Happy Hanukkah and holiday season! ✨

Be sure to tune in all month long for special holiday programming and of course all of the news and magazine article readings you have come to depend on. 😊

Listen here 🎧 https://voicecorps.org/listen/

12/13/2025

The more you know: In 2024 Bausch + Lomb did a survey on folks experiencing dry eye symptoms and an astounding 80% of those who responded said they are constantly aware of how their eyes “feel”. 😳

According to this article published on Reader’s Digest online, the major causes of dry eye can stem from screen time, certain medications, your age, and even your environment among other factors. This article may be of interest to you if you suffer from dry eyes and need to consider different treatment options.🏜👁

Did you know that VOICEcorps airs a volunteer read The Reader’s Digest program every Wednesday at 4PM? Well, now you do! Listen online or on your smart speaker (tell Alexa to “play VOICEcorps!”)

Listen here➡ https://voicecorps.org/listen/

12/12/2025

The wild and wonderful: Whether canine or human, vision begins with the retina.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Padova in Italy teamed up with a group that breeds guide dogs for those who are blind or have low vision to determine what causes vision loss in dogs so that they may breed that out of future guide dogs. 🐶

Retinal atrophy is the most common disease found in these dogs and is an inherited trait. For more information on this fascinating process, read this article written by Deborah Stull, the science news editor of Penn Today. 📑

We love bringing these interesting stories to our audience of print disabled listeners as well as our volunteers. The hope is that with more awareness of these eye diseases and the more they are studied, the better it will be for those with low vision.

Be sure to tune in to VOICEcorps any time of the day for news, articles, books, and special programming curated just for you! 💙

Listen➡ https://voicecorps.org/listen/

In collaboration with a foundation that breeds service dogs for the visually impaired, researchers at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Padova in Padova, Italy, have identified a novel variant associated with progressive retinal atrophy in thre...

12/11/2025

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: What is your favorite Christmas or winter holiday related song? Do you have one or do you keep your playlists the same no matter the time of year? 🗣🎵🎶

Whether we like it or not, Christmas themed music fills our shopping trips and our car rides. Do you “jingle bell rock” or are you more of a calm “silent night” type? Let us know down in the comments below! 🎄

VOICEcorps wants to remind our listeners that if you do in fact need a mini vacation from the typical holiday themed music, you can listen any time of day! Here is our programming schedule ⬇
⭐ https://voicecorps.org/programming/schedule/ ⭐

12/10/2025

Sometimes we can really surprise ourselves. 🙂

Amy Burke, a Canadian Paralympian with albinism, fell in love with the sport of goalball but never thought that she herself would ever participate in the game.
Goalball is played with blindfolded visually impaired athletes listening for 🔔 audio cues to hear where the ball is so they can get it in the other team’s net.

Amy has gone on to help bring her team to victory in the Parapan American Games in Chile, winning gold against the U.S! Her story is not only inspiring, but it shows that great things can be accomplished despite having visual impairments. 👏

VOICEcorps welcomes all print disabled listeners to tune in to our Sports Show (the longest running sports program in central Ohio) every Saturday at 10 AM to get your sports news fix! 🏀⚽🏉⚾

Click below for our full programming schedule! ⬇
https://voicecorps.org/programming/schedule/

Goalball involves blindfolded athletes trying to physically block a ball with bells in it, something Amy Burk found “unbelievably insane” when she first tried it. But now she’s Canada’s team captain at her fifth Paralympics, and has some advice for young athletes about taking risks.