Hi, I'm Sandy Stabenfeldt,
the Digital Services Specialist for the ICAM,
the Indiana Center for Accessible Materials.
I along with Jeff Bond and Martha Hammond
would like to thank you for joining us today
for this episode of PATINS TV.
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We are your ICAM specialists support team
and we would like to share with you
some updates as well as some areas of support
available on our website
that will help schools identify, document,
and provide resources for students who struggle to read.
The ICAM has recently created an AEM,
Accessible Educational Materials forms guide
for the case conference committee.
This guide provides clarification of the AEM process
for the case conference committee
and can be found on the PATINS website.
This guide is used when the case conference committee
is using the Indiana IEP online system.
They will encounter a line that instructs,
complete the NIMAS order form.
This is confusing for some,
because the forms are called ICAM/IERC NIMAS forms
on the PATINS website.
And there are several which will need to be filled out
and uploaded to the Indiana IEP system.
This guide is intended to be used before,
during, and after the IEP meeting.
This guide can be found on the PATINS website
on the ICAM page.
On the right is a menu that says forms for CCC meeting.
Under that is a link that says CCC forms.
On this page, you will want to click
on the link that says guide
when the Indiana IEP instructs
complete the NIMAS order form.
And then on this page you'll click the link that says
the ICAM team has created a guide.
In the beginning of the guide,
you will find a number of terms and groups
that the case conference committee
will become familiar with
during the AEM acquisition process.
Beginning here at the AEM determination process,
the guide takes the case conference committee step-by-step
through the identification of students who need AEM,
followed by certification eligibility,
and then the selection of AEM.
We cover how to add and update student data
and how to prepare and place an order.
Following this is AEM and AT,
assistive technology considerations.
And then we have a number of additional resources
for the case conference review.
Finally, we have our contact information.
We encourage you to contact us
if you have any questions or concerns.
Next up is Jeff Bond who will cover certifying a student.
Hi, I'm Jeff Bond,
the ICAM Technology Specialist.
One recent development that affects
who can certify a student as eligible
to receive NIMAS-derived files
was the passing of The Marrakesh Treaty.
In February of 2021,
the Library of Congress
based on directives in that treaty,
published a new list of professionals
who can certify a student as eligible
to receive Accessible Educational Materials.
Students who have a reading disability,
such as dyslexia are typically not identified
until they are in school.
Historically, this required a medical doctor
to act as a certified competent authority
to confirm the need for AEM.
On Form one of the ICAM website,
you can see the long list of professionals,
includes teachers, reading specialist,
school psychologists, and librarians.
The goal of the Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Act
and the ICAM is to remove barriers
to provide AEM for eligible students.
This new language is a giant step toward this end.
Hi, I'm Martha Hammond,
the ICAM Specialist for DRM services.
Indiana has a unique system of supports
to help your school corporation
achieve and maintain compliance
with the federal law that requires schools
to provide AEM to eligible students.
The ICAM acts as a liaison between Indiana schools
and the Accessible Media Producers,
and works through a network
of Digital Rights Managers or DRMs.
The ICAM staff prepares school personnel
for their tenure as a DRM with training, ongoing support
and the use of our state-of-the-art
online ordering interface.
A DRM might expect to work with the ICAM,
the Indiana Education Resource Center or IERC
and the PATINS Project as they serve students
who have print disabilities.
So the ICAM has produced another resource
similar to the AEM guide that Sandy described
that is specifically for Digital Rights Managers.
Sandy, would you show us where to find the guide
and describe how to use it?
Thank you, Martha, I would be glad to.
You can find this new DRM guide
on the PATINS website on the ICAM page under Inside ICAM.
It states New DRM? Start Here!
This guide covers all the information
that a new DRM would need to get started.
We cover the DRM registration process,
registration of students,
placing orders,
the different formats that the DRM would order,
adding a teacher,
approving orders that teachers would place.
A consideration that is covered here is sample language
for contracts and LEA purchase orders.
This will require the publishers to submit
the NIMAS conformant files to the NIMAC.
This is a very important step,
and you can find the sample language on our website.
If a DRM adds teachers to the system
so that they can place orders,
we have also created a guide that outlines this process
to make it easier for the teachers.
This is on our website as well.
The ICAM team wanted to remind you
that the ICAM was created to help Indiana schools
provide AEM to eligible students,
and all of our services are free.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions
or if you need support at any time.
On behalf of Martha Hammond and Jeff Bond
and myself, Sandy Stabenfeldt,
thank you for your time.
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