Maine AIM: Services

Services to Maine Students with Print Disabilities

ALLTech: Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) Technical Assistance Project

This program will support educators who don’t have the time or resources to provide student mandated access to print-based instructional materials. Such access is guaranteed in federal education statutes, such as IDEA and NCLB. ALLTech can support you with AIM and NIMAS in the following ways:

Coordination of textbook acquisition from the State's NIMAC "authorized user"
Acquisition and implementation of individual or institutional subscriptions to bookshare.org/rfb&d.org
Coordinate district/student AIM-related materials and activities
Coordinate paperwork (subscription forms)
Organize individual student ID's
Download digital books/burn audio CDs
Distribute with copyright laws intact
Provide professional development to staff regarding tools to access digital text
Provide individual training/support to students who have print disabilities and use AIM

ALLTech®: Where Technology is About People!
For more information please contact ALLTech.
Phone: 207-321-6080 x 114
info@alltech-tsi.org

Education Services for Blind & Visually Impaired Children (ESBVIC)

Education Services for Blind and Visually Impaired Children (ESBVIC) is a program of Catholic Charities Maine provided through funding from Maine's Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired. ESBVIC serves children with vision loss and covers the ages from birth to completion of high school. Sixteen teachers of blind and visually impaired children (TVI) cover the entire state and serve children in public or private schools as well as in home and/or pre-school settings.

The Instructional Materials Center (IMC) at ESBVIC provides some Braille and large print textbooks and researches the APH files for books and provides specialty teaching materials for TVIs.

Please noted that applications for Braille materials - particularly those for science and math books may take many months to produce. Please place orders no later than March 1st for the following fall semester.

Education Services for Blind and Visually Impaired Children

Augusta Instructional Materials Center
St. Paul Center
136 State Street
P.O. Box 2028
Augusta, ME 04338-2028
207.620.3220 or
207.621.8520 x 5420
207.622.9781 Fax

Bangor
1066 Kenduskeag Ave.
Bangor, ME 04401
207.299.1933

esbvic@ccmaine.org

Maine State Library AIM Services

Talking Book / Large Print Book Program:

Maine State Library Eligibility: Blind and physically handicapped patrons, patrons with learning disabilities caused by an organic dysfunction.

Available resources: Talking books on cassette and digital formats, large print books. A small collection of "twin-vision" Braille. Cassette and digital players.

Cost: free.

Program website

Program Application

MSL's Talking Book / Large Print catalog

NLS catalog

Books-By-Mail Program:

No application required for standard Books By Mail services.

Eligibility: Maine residents living in a community without a local public library, or Maine residents with a disability qualifying them for homebound services.

Books-By-Mail Program Website

Homebound application

Available resources: Access to material in the Minerva union catalog

Cost: Patrons receiving standard services must pay postage for returning books to MSL. Homebound patrons do not pay postage.