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=Welcome to East Baton Rouge-Accessible Instructional Materials (EBRAIM)= =AIM and East Baton Rouge Parish School Board= Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) are provided to students [enrolled in K-12 schools public or private] with print disabilities who are unable to access standard print-based core instructional materials. The Louisiana AIM Initiative provides assistance, leadership and professional development on determining the need for AIM, accessing AIM and structuring procedures to ensure that every student who needs AIM, receives their materials in a timely manner. Materials and information about Louisiana AIM can be found website at [].

Louisiana Assistive Technology Initiative (LATI)
This Wiki was created to promote networking within Louisiana Regions.

National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials
This site serves as a resource to state- and district-level educators, parents, publishers, conversion houses, accessible media producers, and others interested in learning more about and implementing AIM and NIMAS.

National Center for Learning Disabilities
The leading online resource for parents and educators on learning disabilities and related disorders

Louisiana Accessibility Initiative (LAI)
The Louisiana Accessibility Initiative is a collaborative effort across divisions of the Louisiana Department of Education and is designed to foster curriculum support for all learners. This initiative addresses state and local needs relative to meeting the criteria of the No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The initiative includes two tasks forces with representatives from state, regional and districts levels who focus on curriculum, assessment, special populations, community support, behavioral supports, technology, university programs and certification. The project incorporates other initiatives that focus on accessibility such as Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and assistive technology (AT). To bring awareness for the project, an Accessibility Awareness Campaign was launched in 2006 at the Louisiana LEADs conference.

As part of the Accessibility Awareness Campaign of 2009, the week of September 8th-12th, 2006 was proclaimed as Accessibility Awareness Week by Governor Kathleen B. Blanco. Projects for this week included campaign flyers, hands-on trainings at regional centers, closed-captioned video training on UDL and SETT, and web accessibility training. The week was successful in providing initial awareness to the project and accessibility needs.**

Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Louisiana began addressing UDL in 2000 through a series of face-to-face and online courses []. This project is still active with three online courses: Bridging the Gap: Universal Design for Learning, UDL: Technology Supports for Math in K-12 classrooms and UDL: Technology Supports for Reading in K-12 classrooms. These projects led to a more comprehensive initiative that has resulted in collaboration between the Louisiana Department of Education (K-12) and the Louisiana Board of Regents(University). This larger project has generated a wide variety of trainings and conferences accessing national presenters such as Skip Stall from CAST. The anchor of the project is the [|Anytime, Anyplace, Anyone, K-12 Universal Design]for Learning web page.