New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION › Chapter 75 - INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY › Part 4 - RELATING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BRAILLE ACCESS ACT › Section 6.75.4.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. "Alternate
				accessible format" as used in the Braille Access Act has the same meaning as
				"specialized formats" as used in the IDEA and both terms mean one of several
				alternatives to traditional printed instructional materials, including but not
				limited to Braille, audio or digital text or large print formats which are
				exclusively for students as defined in this rule.
B. "Department" means the public education
				department.
C. "Educational
				institution" means "public school", including charter schools, or "state
				agency" or "state institution" as defined in Section
				22-1-2
				NMSA 1978.
D. "Educational
				purposes" means materials that are necessary for instruction of a
				student.
E. "Instructional
				materials" means textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals or editions, blackline
				masters, transparencies, test packets, software, CD-ROMs, videotapes and audio
				materials.
F. "National
				instructional materials access center" or NIMAC means the center established
				pursuant to
				20
				U.S.C. 1474(e) of the
				IDEA.
G. "National instructional
				materials accessibility standard" or NIMAS means the standard established by
				the secretary of the United States department of education to be used in the
				preparation of electronic files suitable and used solely for efficient
				conversion into specialized formats.
H. "Nontextual mathematics or science
				instruction materials" means mathematical or scientific pictures,
				illustrations, graphs, charts, symbols and notations.
I. "Structural integrity" means all of the
				printed instructional materials, including the text of the material, sidebars,
				table of contents, chapter headings and subheadings, footnotes, indexes,
				glossaries and bibliographies. Structural integrity need not include nontextual
				elements such as pictures, illustrations, graphs or charts. The publisher
				should include a brief textual description of any such nontextual element when
				it is practical to do so and mention of the nontextual element when a
				description is not practical.
J.
				"Student" means a blind or other person with print disabilities accepted,
				enrolled in or attending an educational institution who has been determined by
				the educational institution to need instructional materials in an alternate
				accessible format and shall include:
(1) blind
				persons whose visual acuity, as determined by competent authority, is 20/200 or
				less in the better eye with correcting glasses, or whose widest diameter if
				visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than 20 degrees;
(2) persons whose visual disability, with
				correction and regardless of optical measurement, is certified by competent
				authority as limiting the reading of standard printed material;
(3) persons certified by competent authority
				as unable to read or unable to use standard printed material as a result of
				physical limitations;
(4) persons
				certified by competent authority as having a reading disability resulting from
				organic dysfunction and of sufficient severity to prevent their reading printed
				material in a normal manner.