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NIMAS: What Teacher Education Faculty Need to Know about the National Instructional Materials Standard
NIMAS Technical Assistance
Center Update
Chuck Hitchcock
May 6, 2008
NIMAS
Donut
Electronic Textbooks:
One foundation for the
Implementation of
UDL.
NIMAS TA Center Goals
Support the efficient production of baseline
NIMAS files and the conversion of these files
into alternate formats
Facilitate the creation of flexible distribution
systems to ensure improved availability and
timely delivery of accessible materials
Raise awareness of key stakeholders
regarding the benefits and availability of
accessible digital materials
NIMAS Implementation Advisory Council
Chuck Hitchcock, Chair
Chief Officer, Policy and Technology
Director, NIMAS Technical
Assistance Center, CAST, Inc.
John Churchill, Senior Vice President
Operations, RFB&D
Jeff Diedrich, Director
Michigan Integrated Technology
Supports
Jay Diskey, Executive Director
School Division, Association of
American Publishers
Bill East, Executive Director
National Association of State
Directors of Special Education
John Eisenberg, Severe
Disabilities/Assistive Technology
Specialist
Office of Special Education
Instructional Services, Virginia
Department of Education
Jim Fruchterman, President & CEO
The Benetech
Initiative/Bookshare.org
Nicole Gaines, NIMAC Manager
American Printing House for the
Blind
Diane Cordry Golden, Director
Missouri Assistive Technology
Vicki Hershman, State Project Director
PATINS Project
Jennifer A. Hill, Government Relations
Director
The Association of Educational
Publishers
Bonnie Jones, ex officio, Project Officer;
Education Research Analyst
NIMAS Centers; Office of Special
Education Programs, US Department
of Education
Linnie Lee, Exceptional Children
Assistive Technology Consultant
Division of Curriculum Development,
Kentucky Department of Education
Charles Mayo, Manager
Distribution, Accessibility & Finance,
Instructional Materials & Educational
Technology, Texas Education Agency
Donna McNear
Rum River Special Education Coop
http://nimas.cast.org/center/council/index.html
Richard Robison, Executive Director
Federation for Children with
Special Needs
David Rose, ex officio, Principal
Investigator
NIMAS Development and
Technical Assistance Centers,
CAST, Inc.
Mary Ann Siller, National Project
Manager
Professional Development
Department, American
Foundation for the Blind
Skip Stahl, ex officio, Project
Director
NIMAS Development Center,
CAST, Inc.
Joy Zabala, AIM Project Manager
Assistive Technology &
Leadership
Ruth Ziolkowski, Assistive
Technology Industry
Association (ATIA)
Representative; President
Don Johnston, Inc.
Recent NIMAS TA Center Activities
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New NIMAS Implementation Advisory Council
New NASDSE Policy Brief
New Website Resources
Recent Collaborations: NIMAC, B4E, RFB&D, AIM Consortium,
CIMAP, ATIA and AFB
TA: SEAs, Publishers and Conversion Houses
Presentations, Webinars, Teleconferences: approx. 100 since
January of 2005
Product Development (next slide)
Collaboration with AT Product Developers
Solicit Updated Information from the Field: Surveys
Maintain a public list of SEA NIMAS Coordinators
NIMAS TA: Recent Products
 NIMAS Conversion Tool – Open Source Code
 http://nimas.cast.org/about/resources/conversion_tool.html
 Recent Math ML Support by Design Science
 DAISY/NIMAS Structure Guidelines – TA/Dev, gh and DAISY Cons.
 http://www.daisy.org/z3986/structure/
 Creating NIMAS Files w/ Best Practices section
 http://nimas.cast.org/about/resources/creating_nimas.html
 NIMAS File set Exemplars – nine including .opf
 http://nimas.cast.org/center/exemplars/index.html
 Accessible Textbooks in the Classroom II, by Skip Stahl
 http://nimas.cast.org/about/resources/accessible_textbooks_ii.html
 Math Resources
 http://nimas.cast.org/about/resources/math_resources.html
 Accessible Materials Timeline – next slide
NIMAS TA Center
Purpose: provide support to publishers and states to ensure
the successful implementation of NIMAS.
Works closely with:
NIMAS Development Center
Purpose: provide national leadership to further the development
and maintenance of NIMAS and support its implementation.
And with:
NIMAS Center Partners
http://nimas.cast.org
NIMAS Website Metrics
Unique visitors: 3,480 in March 2008, 38,682 for all of 2007
Average of 1.5 visits to the site by each visitor
Page views: 15,243 in March 2008
Links to NIMAS site from other sites: 220 links in March 2007
Visits by other countries: 147 in 2007
Google Search Data – page count
NIMAS
884,000
NIMAS disability
6,590
NIMAS SEA
81,300
NIMAS textbook
5,480
NIMAC
56,100
NIMAS NIMAC
4,190
NIMAS access
37,200
NIMAS OSEP
1,800
NIMAS student
31,000
NIMAS OSERS
NIMAS LEA
18,100
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UDL and NIMAS
NIMAS
http://www.cast.org/publications/UDLguidelines/version1.html#p2_g5.1
UDL Editions
Issues of Note
 Time consuming title-by-title assignment by AUs to national AMPs
 Support anticipatory access to NIMAS filesets for OSEP funded AMPs
 Considerations
 K-12 NIMAS access only – not new but emphasized by publisher orgs.
 Attention to evidence (or assurance) that book was purchased
 Need method for obtaining filesets for product development and testing
 Which populations with print disabilities are included?
 IDEA 2004 supports only students with IEPs
 Which LD populations and how best certified?
 How to legally support students with print disabilities that don’t qualify
 What about Section 504 students or a blind student that needs no plan?
 Conflict: copyright, IDEA 2004 regulations and civil rights
 Limited development of a “market model” to date
 Publisher Issues
 Meaning of “Adopt NIMAS” by SEAs – some need phase-in period
 Meaning of the word “publish” – on or after July 19, 2006
 Student populations that qualify
 Need to increase level of importance to SEA Sped Administrators
 Ongoing need for research regarding specialized formats and learning
NIMAS Technical
Assistance Center Update
Questions?