§ 332.10 - Projects funded under the educational media research, production, distribution, and training program.

Projects that may be supported include, but are not limited to the following:

(a) Research in the use of educational and training films and other educational media for individuals with disabilities. This may include research to—

(1) Identify the full range of special needs of individuals with disabilities related to educational media and media technology;

(2) Determine the need for—

(i) Educational media training;

(ii) Media information systems; and

(iii) Media delivery systems;

(3) Determine the extent to which the needs listed in paragraph (a)(2) of this section are being met; and

(4) Develop or demonstrate new or improved techniques that would contribute to the advancement and education of individuals with disabilities through the use of educational media or technology or both.

(b) Creation or adaptation of educational media for use by individuals with disabilities, their parents, their actual or potential employers, and other persons directly involved in activities for the advancement of individuals with disabilities.

(c) Distribution of educational media. This may include the development of delivery systems.

(d) Dissemination of information about practices found effective in regard to the effective use of educational media and technology.

(e) Training of persons in the use and dissemination of educational media for the advancement of individuals with disabilities.

(f) Provision of cultural experiences to enrich the lives of deaf and hard of hearing children and adults, increase public awareness and understanding of deafness and of the artistic and intellectual achievements of deaf and hard of hearing individuals, and promote the integration of hearing and deaf and hard of hearing individuals through shared cultural, educational, and social experiences.

(g) Captioning for deaf and hard of hearing individuals and video describing for the visually impaired of films, television programs, and video materials.

(h) Provision of current, free textbooks and other educational publications and materials to blind and other print-handicapped students in elementary, secondary, postsecondary, and graduate schools and other institutions of higher education through the medium of transcribed tapes and cassettes. The term print-handicapped refers to any individual who is blind as severely visually impaired, or who, by reason of a physical or perceptual disability, is unable to read printed material unassisted.

(i) Distribution of captioned and video-described films, video materials, and other educational media and equipment through State schools for individuals with disabilities, public libraries, and such other agencies or entities as the Secretary deems appropriate to serve as local or regional centers for such distribution.