New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 29 - STANDARDS FOR EXCELLENCE
Part 18 - BRAILLE STANDARDS
Section 6.29.18.8 - STANDARDS OF EFFECTIVE BRAILLE INSTRUCTION

Universal Citation: 6 NM Admin Code 6.29.18.8

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024

A. Collaboration between instructors. Braille instructors shall be TSVIs and shall collaborate with the student's educational team as well as with other teachers of the blind or visually impaired to provide effective, relevant instruction in both the primary educational setting and individually.

B. A TSVI shall:

(1) provide general training and support to primary educational setting staff about learners who are blind or visually impaired using braille in the primary education setting;

(2) ensure that assessments related to reading fluency and comprehension required in the primary education setting are in a format accessible to the student who is blind or visually impaired;

(3) assess the student's progress in developing braille proficiency;

(4) provide braille instruction using appropriate instructional approaches for the individual student to develop proficiency in braille;

(5) pre-teach the objectives and materials provided by the teacher in the primary education setting to the student who is blind or visually impaired;

(6) teach methods of annotation and organization of textual materials and information that are appropriate for braille readers;

(7) select assistive technology appropriate for the student who is blind or visually impaired;

(8) provide training and support or consult with others to provide training and support to the staff of the primary education setting regarding the use appropriate assistive technology in the classroom; and

(9) teach keyboarding skills and skills needed to use accessible format electronic technology.

C. A teacher of the student in the primary education setting shall, with training and support from the TSVI:

(1) organize the classroom learning environment to accommodate the tactual learning of students who are blind or visually impaired;

(2) understand differences between tactual and visual processing and accommodate part-to-whole processing approaches of a tactual learner;

(3) provide aural descriptions of all visual learning materials for the students who are blind or visually impaired;

(4) provide time and opportunity for a blind or visually impaired student to safely explore the tactile characteristics of materials and environments;

(5) understand how to use hand-under-hand support techniques to guide tactual explorations by students who are blind or visually impaired;

(6) provide pre-teaching materials to the TSVI for individualized instruction in the content area;

(7) allow extra time needed for blind and visually impaired students to find their places in a braille text or scan paragraphs to locate the main idea;

(8) examine their own attitudes about blindness;

(9) demonstrate flexibility in thinking about education of students who are blind or visually impaired;

(10) understand how a braillewriter works and reinforce braille skills learned outside of the primary education setting; and

(11) request materials that need to be transcribed into braille in a timely manner to ensure that the blind or visually impaired student has access to the material.

D. So that blind and visually impaired students shall have the same instructional material content as sighted peers, a TSVI or a braille transcriptionist shall:

(1) order content-area instructional materials in braille;

(2) transcribe content-area instructional materials, including teacher-created materials, in braille; or

(3) provide tactile versions of visual instructional materials, including teacher-created materials.

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