What National Resources are Available to Educators?
Consider the following: • The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) has initiated a national campaign to identify solutions to alleviate the challenges facing children with visual impairments in receiving textbooks on time and in the appropriate media/medium. The AFB Textbooks and Instructional Materials Solutions Forum has two web pages http://www.afb.org/education.asp and http://www.tsbvi.edu/textbooks/afb/index.htm. • The Association of American Publishers (AAP) is a critical partner in achieving the goal of access to textbooks and instructional materials. AAP is active in collaborating with this national issue. Its web site is www.publishers.org. • WGBH/National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is a research and development facility that works to make media accessible to people with sensory disabilities. Currently, it is doing research on the accessibility of CD-ROMs, the web, digital television, and other new technologies. All of these efforts focus on the accessibility of mul
