NIMAS

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• Welcome
• NIMAS
• Implementation
• Advisory Council
• Meeting
• Tuesday
• January 27, 2009
• Orlando, Florida
• Chuck Hitchcock, Director
• NIMAS TA Center

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Purpose, Term, Size

• PURPOSE The NIMAS Council will maintain,
  advance, and support the adoption of the NIMAS at
  the state level. This implementation is designed
  to facilitate the timely provision of accessible
  versions of core print instructional materials to
  qualifying students.
• TERM Two-year renewable term
• Beginning Jan. 2008
• SIZE Up to 20 members

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Why do we meet?

• Facilitate achievement of the Councils purpose
• Maintain, advance, and support the adoption of
  the NIMAS at the state level
• Sharing
• Discussing
• Recommending
• Disseminating

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Process

• Not a voting group
• Move forward by general consensus
• Consensus building (also known as collaborative
  problem solving or collaboration) is a
  conflict-resolution process used mainly to settle
  complex, multi-party disputes.
• Update from OSEP Bonnie Jones

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A Few Hot Topics

• Publisher-related issues
• Quality of XMLgenerally quite good (need
  feedback loop?)
• Appropriate student populations served with
  specialized formats
• Request for NIMAS fileset at time of adoption
  submissions
• Stimulation of a market model for some or all
  students
• State-related issues
• Which populations are includedSEA-level issues?
• IDEA students with IEPs only? What about Sec. 504
  students?
• Which LD populations and what about certification
  requirements?
• Communication of expectations and training
  opportunities for LEA
• Diversity of implementation policy and practice
• Amount of effort
• Type of approach
• Impact assumption of or assignment of
  responsibility
• LEA-related issues
• Awareness of need
• Knowledge regarding tools and specialized formats
• Resources for determining need and acquiring
  specialized formats

Handout 4
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NIMAS TA Center Update

• Activities
• DAISY Participation
• Support OSEP Policy Group
• Conversion Tool
• Structure Guidelines
• Staff
• Chuck Hitchcock
• Skip Stahl
• Valerie Hendricks
• Boris Goldowsky
• David Rose, PI
• Linda Encarnacao

• Presentations
• Conferences
• Teleconferences/Webinars
• Technical Assistance mostly phone email
• States
• Publishers
• Conversion Houses
• Web Site Development
• New content
• Plans
• Activities
• DAISY Participation
• Support OSEP Policy Group
• Conversion Tool
• Structure Guidelines

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NIMAS Dev TA 32 Review

• Briefing book preparedcombined Dev and TA
  centers
• Presentation to expert review panelMay 8, 2008
• Summary report issued by OSEP/AIRJuly 7, 2008
• Summary of the summary for the Councilhand-out 5
• Pages 14 Intro and summary of presentation
  points
• Pages 46 Brief analysis of reviews
• Page 6 Two concluding questions
• Are planned activities for last year logical? (8
  of 8 yes)
• Does the project merit continued funding? (8 of 8
  yes)
• Pages 67 Conclusions and recommendations
• Improve error rate on file conversions
• Work with states
• Increase grassroots awareness
• Make materials more user-friendly, less technical

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Recent activities accomplishmentscontinued

• NIMAS Standards BoardSkip
• NIMACNicole and Julia
• K12 Educational Publishers/AAPJay
• Discussion regarding above reports
• Public Comments 10-Minute Break

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Illustrated NIMAS/NIMAC Workflow Steps
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Supporting all students with print disabilities

• Who are these students?
• Promoting a market modelaccess and more
• Options available to SEAs and LEAs
• Break
• NIMAS Exemplar 10
• NIMAS fileset qualitydiscussion

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Signs of Progress

• SEA web site resources for LEAs
• NIMAS TA resources developed for SEAs, LEAs, and
  publishers (NASDSE Policy Brief)
• New reader technologies and conversion tools
• Flexibility SEA-driven change
• Inclusion of NIMAS in textbook adoption language
• LunchBoxes for Council Members

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Post lunch

• Public comments
• AIM Consortium update
• CIMAP update
• B4E update
• NIMAS Dev and TA partner updates
• AFB
• ATIA
• Break
• Public comments and topical discussion
• AMP updates, wrap-up, and recommendations