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Re:Working with culturally diverse families |
This message was posted by RebeccaC on Jul 20, 2009. |
I work with Deaf children.... does NIMAS provide any accessibility for materials to be presented in American Sign Language? ASL is our students' first language. |
- Re:Working with culturally diverse families posted by Joy Zabala on Jul 21, 2009
At this time the NIMAS applies to print-based instructional materials - textbooks and core instructional materials - being rendered in the four specialized formats included in the Act to Provide Books to the Adult Blind, As Amended. Those formats include Braille, Large Print, Audio, and Digital. BUT, as teachers, of course we know that it is not just PRINT materials that need to be accessible AND that there are other important formats that need to be provided, such as, as you mention, American Sign Language.