Best Practices 

In order to reduce duplication of costs and effort, and maximize innovation and expertise in developing and distributing accessible instructional materials, the AIM Consortium is committed to sharing high impact, replicable Best Practice Products and Services. These are anticipated to include:

• Professional development—online and face-to-face
• Tracking systems for instructional materials delivery
• Models to reconcile State and Federal statutory and regulatory provisions regarding accessible formats
• Instruments and tools for processing student data and IEPs
• Systems for integrating acquisition and delivery systems of K-16 materials.

General Resources

Statutory Requirements for States and Local Education Agencies
 
NIMAS in IDEA 2004 Regulations Summary
http://nimas.cast.org/about/regulations/osep_summary.html [1]

National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) Module
http://www.nichcy.org/training/contents.asp#NIMAS [2]

Resources for determining student eligibility

Who is Eligible?
http://www.loc.gov/nls/eligible.html [3]

What About Reading Disability?
http://www.loc.gov/nls/reference/factsheets/readingdisabilities.html [4]

The Copyright Conundrum , From Accessible Textbooks in the Classroom
http://nimas.cast.org/about/resources/accessible_textbooks.html#support_district_copy [5]

Selecting and using specialized formats

Learning Through Listening
http://www.rfbd.org [6]

RFB&D membership form (PDF)
http://www.rfbd.org/instapp.pdf [7]

Bookshare.org Membership Agreement
http://stahl19.googlepages.com/Group_Agreement_2008.doc [8]

Creating student-ready materials

CAST NIMAS Conversion Tool
http://nimas.cast.org/about/resources/conversion_tool.html [9]

DTBMaker
http://w3.wmcnet.org/dtbmaker/ [10]

NIMAS/DAISY Readers

Read OutLoud
http://www.donjohnston.com/products/read_outloud/ [11]

gh Player
http://www.gh-accessibility.com/ [12]

Kurzweil
http://www.kurzweiledu.com/ [13]

TextHelp
http://www.texthelp.com/page.asp [14]

DAISY Playback Tools
http://www.daisy.org/tools/tools.shtml?Cat=playback [15]