Winter 2012
students who are blind or visually impaired and are enrolled in Colorado's pre-K-12 schools. The CIMC maintains an annual registration of Colorado students with visual impairments (1170) and registers those students who are legally blind with the American Printing House for the Blind (APH). Colorado registered 830 students during the January 2010 Federal Quota census and 654 on the January 2011 census.
The CIMC is able to purchase books through
funds provided by the Colorado Department of Education Exceptional Student Services Unit, Colorado administrative units, and the APH Federal Quota Registry. The most expensive transcription of a print book into braille format purchased by the CIMC for a Colorado student for the 2011-12 school year has been $21,782.00. During the first semester of the 2011-12 school year, the CIMC has processed orders for 530 braille and large print titles. Second semester book orders were just beginning to be submitted at the time this article was written. To date, the CIMC processed 677 book orders during the 2010-2011 school year.
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