![]() ![]() (2) Having a means of acquiring print instructional materials in accessible formats according to policies and procedures established by the department of education, including for students who transfer into the public agency after the start of the school year. Such files must be provided to the NIMAC with sufficient time, according to policies and procedures established by the department of education, to ensure that students requiring accessible formats receive the instructional materials at the same time as other students receive the instructional materials. (1) Requiring publishers or other contractors to, at a minimum, provide the National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC) with electronic files containing the content of the print instructional materials using the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS). Reasonable steps include, but are not limited to, the following: (h) For purposes of this section, "timely manner" means that a public agency will take all reasonable steps to ensure that students who need print instructional materials in accessible formats are provided those materials at the same time as other students receive instructional materials. This brings up the question, "how much delay is too much and how much is acceptable/unavoidable?"Īgain, only dealing with the Accessible Materials subsection of "Timely Manner," our Indiana Article 7 refers to "Reasonable Steps." 511 IAC 7-36-7. Many potential roadblocks exist, which can cause the "Timely Delivery" of said services or items to possibly be delayed. There can frequently be many steps and people involved in getting services, materials, supplies, or assistive technologies to a student, once the need has been determined. accessible formats are provided those materials in a timely manner, the SEA must ensure that all public agencies take all reasonable steps to provide instructional materials in accessible formats to children with disabilities who need those instructional materials at the same time as other children receive instructional materials."In Indiana, our Article 7 makes some similarly nondescript statements about "Timely Manner," which do provide some level of guidance, but lack a certain desired specificity. ![]() The IDEA mentions "timely manner" several times, and gets as specific as stating, ". Of course, Timely Manner also applies to other services and assistive technology. A question was posed online to the world of "us" regarding "Timely Manner." My colleague and I experienced very different INITIAL reactions to this question posed online and I want to talk about that a bit, because I think the same sort of variety in reactions likely exist in the field.įrom my professional perspective, the majority of the time, "timely manner" typically refers to Accessible Educational Materials and more specifically WHEN those materials arrive to the end user (the student). Second: my limited and rapidly transfiguring attention was recently drawn, by a colleague, toward a conversation that was happening online. ![]() I've personally been inspired by each of them. However, I admit that I was promptly put in my place, week after week, as every single one of them have posted nothing less than magic in the form of words. I started this blog process in hopes that you might gain some insight into the brilliant minds of the PATINS Coordinators. I had a couple of reasons and you're right again, the first was in desperate attempt to understand how in the world it was possible that NINE other PATINS bloggers had beautifully taken their rotation already and the arrow points directly at me again! If you haven't already read the previous 9 wonderfully written blogs by the PATINS Coordinators, you're missing out on a wisdom that I'm confident you won't find elsewhere. the indefinite continued process of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole. ![]()
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