29.03.1 For the purpose of these regulations, adaptive textbooks, and other instructional materials are defined to mean Braille, large print, and other electronic media.

29.03.2 IDEA refers to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

29.03.3 IEP means the individualized education program for a child with disabilities under the IDEA.

29.03.4 Learning Media Assessment (LMA) authored by Koenig, A. & Holbrook, C., 1995, is a structured systematic procedure used to gather information and document decisions regarding the selection of reading and writing media for children who are visually impaired.

29.03.5 Braille Skills Inventory is an assessment that provides teachers of children who are visually impaired or blind, who read Braille, with a tool that promotes meaningful assessment of Braille literacy skills.

29.03.6 Informal Reading Inventories (IRIs) as used in these regulations refers to commercially available IRIs which are adapted into Braille and large print and used as a part of continuing assessment to determine child progress in reading as measured by reading comprehension and reading rate.

29.03.7 Reading rates are measured using informal reading inventories and content texts and are one component of the data needed to determine efficiency in a child's current literacy media.

29.03.8 Functional vision assessment as used in these regulations refers to data gathered by a certified teacher of the visually impaired which provides evidence of a child's use of visual ability in near and distance tasks.