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Pennsylvania special education regulations: duty of agencies to provide print instructional materials in accessible formats to blind children and children with print disabilities
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding government bodies.
What it requires
- If you are a Pennsylvania agency (a school entity, approved private school, State-operated program or facility or other public or private organization providing educational services to children with disabilities, other than a charter school or cyber charter school), adopt the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) (22 Pa. Code 14.106(a)).
- Provide print instructional materials in specialized, accessible formats (Braille, audio, digital, large-print and the like) in a timely manner to children who are blind or other persons with print disabilities (sec. 14.106(b)).
- Take steps to ensure that those children have access to their accessible format instructional materials at the same time that students without disabilities have access to instructional materials, and do not withhold instructional materials from other students until the accessible formats are available (sec. 14.106(c)).
- When a child who is blind or other person with a print disability enrolls in school after the start of the school year, take steps to ensure that the student has access to accessible format instructional materials within 10 school days from the time it is determined that the child requires them (sec. 14.106(e)).
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What this law does
Under section 14.106 of the Pennsylvania Code, agencies must adopt the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard, a standard for source files of print instructional materials created by publishers that may be converted into accessible instructional materials.
The chapter defines an agency as a school entity, approved private school, State-operated program or facility or other public (excluding charter schools and cyber charter schools) or private organization providing educational services to children with disabilities.
Agencies must provide print instructional materials in specialized, accessible formats, that is, Braille, audio, digital, large-print, and the like, in a timely manner to children who are blind or other persons with print disabilities.
Agencies act in a timely manner if they take steps to ensure that children who are blind or other persons with print disabilities have access to their accessible format instructional materials at the same time that students without disabilities have access to instructional materials. Agencies may not withhold instructional materials from other students until instructional materials in accessible formats are available.
If a child who is blind or other person with a print disability enrolls in school after the start of the school year, an agency must take steps to ensure that the student has access to accessible format instructional materials within 10 school days from the time it is determined that the child requires printed instructional materials in an alternate accessible or specialized format.
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