Utah Admin. Code R277-800-2 - Definitions
(1) "Accessible media producer" means a
company or agency that creates fully-accessible, specialized, student-ready
formats for curriculum materials, such as:
(a) Braille;
(b) large print;
(c) audiobooks; or
(d) digital books.
(2)
(a)
"Assessment" means the process of documenting, usually in measurable terms,
knowledge, skills, attitudes, and abilities pertaining to the fields of vision
and hearing.
(b) An assessment may
include the following areas of focus:
(i) a
valid, reliable and appropriate assessment given to determine eligibility for
placement and services by a team of qualified professionals and a student's
parent or guardian;
(ii) a
functional assessment accomplished by observation and measurement of daily
living skills and functional use of vision or hearing, or both; and
(iii) academic evaluations as part of the
Statewide School Accountability System, including an alternate assessment with
appropriate accommodations as indicated on a student's I E P.
(3)
(a) "Campus-based program" means a program
provided by USDB that offers an alternative to an outreach program for
students, ages three to 22, who are blind or visually impaired, deaf or hard of
hearing, or deafblind.
(b) Under a
campus-based program, services are provided by qualified USDB staff at a USDB
site.
(4)
(a) "The Chafee Amendment to the Copyright
Act" or the "Chafee Amendment" is a federal law,
17 U.S.C.
121, that allows an authorized entity to
reproduce or distribute copyrighted materials in specialized formats for
students who are blind or have other print disabilities without the need to
obtain permission of the copyright owner.
(b) Authorized entities under the Chafee
Amendment include governmental or nonprofit organizations that have a primary
mission to provide copyrighted works in specialized formats for students who
are blind or have other print disabilities.
(5) "Child Find" means activities and
strategies designed to locate, evaluate, and identify individuals eligible for
services under the IDEA.
(6)
"Consultation" means a meeting for discussion or seeking advice.
(7) "Designated LEA" means the local
education agency assigned by a student's IEP or Section 504 team to have
primary responsibility for ensuring that all rights and requirements regarding
individual student assessment, eligibility services, and procedural safeguards
are satisfied consistent with the IDEA.
(8) "Deafblindness" or "deafblind" means
written verification provided by a medical professional stating that an
individual has concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination of
which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational
needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for
students with deafness or students with blindness.
(9) "Deafness" is a hearing impairment that
is so severe that the student is impaired in processing linguistic information
through hearing, with or without amplification, and that adversely affects a
student's educational performance.
(10) "Educational Resource Center" or "ERC"
is a center under the direction of the USDB that:
(a) provides information, technology, and
instructional materials to assist children who are deaf, hard of hearing,
blind, visually impaired, and deafblind in progressing in the curriculum;
and
(b) facilitates access to
materials, information, and training for teachers and parents of children who
are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, and deafblind.
(11) "Extension classroom" means a
classroom provided by an LEA where USDB provides a full-time classroom teacher
and related services to students who remain enrolled in the LEA's general
education programs.
(12) "Hearing
loss" is an impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that
adversely affects a student's educational performance, but that is not included
under the definition of deafness.
(13) "National Instructional Materials Access
Center" or "NIMAC" is a central national repository that receives file sets in
the NIMAS from publishers to maintain, catalog, and house for future reference
file sets for states to use with students who have print disabilities and
require accessible alternate formats.
(14) "National Instructional Materials
Accessibility Standard" or "NIMAS" means the electronic standard that enables
all producers of alternate formats for students with print disabilities to work
from one standard format available from publishers for this purpose.
(15)
(a)
"Outreach program" is a program provided by the USDB that offers an alternative
to a campus-based program for students ages three to 22 who are blind or
visually impaired, deaf or hard of hearing, or deafblind.
(b) In an outreach program, services are
provided at a student's resident school or at a designated school by a
qualified teacher of the blind or visually impaired, deaf or hard of hearing,
or deafblind.
(16)
(a) "Related services" means transportation
and such developmental, corrective, and other supportive services as are
required to assist a student with disability to benefit from special
education.
(b) Related services may
include:
(i) speech-language pathology
services;
(ii) audiology
services;
(iii) interpreting
services;
(iv) psychological
services;
(v) physical and
occupational therapy;
(vi)
recreation, including therapeutic recreation;
(vii) early identification and assessment of
disabilities in students;
(viii)
counseling services, including rehabilitation counseling;
(ix) orientation and mobility
services;
(x) health services and
school nursing services;
(xi)
social work services in schools;
(xii) parent counseling and training; or
(xi) low vision
services.
(17)
"Section 504 accommodation plan" means a plan required by Section 504 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which is designed to accommodate an individual who
has been determined, as a result of an evaluation, to have a physical or mental
impairment that substantially limits one or more major life
activities.
(18) "Technical
assistance" means assistance to public education employees, licensed educators,
parents, and families in significant areas of need by someone who has the
expertise necessary to give council and training in designated areas.
(19) "Utah State Instructional Materials
Access Center" or "USIMAC" means a center that receives NIMAS electronic file
sets and produces them in the accessible alternate format required by students
with print disabilities.
(20)
(a) "Visual impairment," is an impairment in
vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a student's educational
performance.
(b) "Visual
impairment" includes both partial sight and blindness that adversely affect a
student's educational performance.
(21) "Weighted pupil unit" or "WPU" means the
basic unit used to calculate the amount of state funds for which a school
district or charter school is eligible.
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