Exciting Info on the NIMAS Law and the Dolphin Converter!

Urgent Info! Are you aware of NIMAS?

NIMAS (National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard) is part of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act recently signed into action by President Bush. It is a system that school districts across the nation are adopting to improve the distribution and implementation of educational materials for individuals with disabilities.

The NIMAS law will help your State School District when dealing with the development of source files for textbooks or when developing the best system for the production and delivery of textbooks and instructional materials to students who are disabled.

It is important to become aware of this law and this standard to guarantee that the students in need are getting the materials they need. You can get more info at nimas.cast.org

Offer Your Students the Choice They Deserve!

How many times have you had to rip the spine off a textbook and scan in the pages to make a braille version for one student- and then later photocopy the same book to create it in large print for someone else? These time-consuming activities can cause frustrating delays in getting material to students, leading to real problems if they fall behind their classmates.

Now, thanks to Dolphin software, there is a much faster, more flexible way to create high-quality learning materials in-house, in just about any format that a student could need. This product is well suited and easy for for those with no altformat creation experience, and is equally well-suited to experienced professionals.

Dolphin EasyConverter software allows you to quickly make versions of learning materials that can be converted to Braille, MP3 audio, large print, or DAISY. This can be done in a moments, either:

• Direct from electronic files that you have on your PC
• Or from printed documents by scanning them into Word.

The great advantage is that once the file is on your system, you can output it in any format you choose in future- saving considerable time when new students come along with different needs. There’s flexibility to add a note in the text to briefly describe a picture or graph that appears in the original text. You can also edit the material, add footnotes, and other aids. EasyConverter can meet just about any formatting challenge, providing you with the versatility to offer your students the choice they deserve.