Community activities and events that are related to the educational needs of students with visual impairments have continued through the changes in the statewide support program. This will list new materials available for loan from the Educational Materials Center. The Media specialist continues to distribute detailed guidelines for providing information in order to acquire books and educational materials in a timely manner. These guidelines continue to go out around the first of February. 5. The tactile image enhancer continues to be available for accessible images.
Teachers can fax images to the media specialist for production.
Also the web site for free .preformatted tactile images will be include on the list of resources for graphic based information 6. The Media specialist will photocopy and distribute a publisher's list as a resource for obtaining copyright permission for production educational materials. Also a copy of the current copyright law will be distributed to vision teachers.