AIM and NIMAS Web Site Resources at State Education Agency

Spotlight on Lousiana: An interview with Jackie Bobbett: Creating a One-Stop Shop for AIM (featured in the AIM Connector e-newsletter of February 2012).

General NIMAS information, and links to the NIMAC and some NIMAS-related information, are provided on the Division of Curriculum & Standards web page: http://www.louisianaschools.net/curriculum/textbooks_aim.html

General AIM sub-site includes links to NIMAS-related information: http://www.atanswers.com/aim/index.html.

Louisiana's AIM page contains a partial mission statement regarding AIM: "The local education agency is responsible for providing access to the curriculum as part of the Supports and Services and Accommodations sections of IDEA" and refers site users to Louisiana's assistive technology and accommodations page: http://www.louisianaschools.net/curriculum/textbooks.html. Louisiana has an accessibility initiative "as a collaborative endeavor to foster curriculum support for all learners." Learn more about this AIM-related goal of Louisiana on their Leadership & Technology: Accessibility Initiative page.

Instructional Materials Acquisition (adoption or open territory)

Louisiana is a textbook adoption state. For more information about textbook adoption in Louisiana refer to http://www.louisianaschools.net/curriculum/textbooks_aim.html.

Bulletin 1794, [Louisiana] State Textbook Adoption Policy and Procedure Manual. This bulletin identifies Louisiana's policy for textbook adoption and the provision of accessible instructional materials in specialized formats, including NIMAS. Bulletin 1706, Regulations for Implementation of the Children with Exceptionalities Act. This bulletin, under Section 172, references accessible instructional materials. See: http://www.louisianaschools.net/lde/bese/1041.html.