Winter 2007 Meeting
The fifth meeting of the NIMAS Development Committee was held on Tuesday January 23, and Wednesday January 24, 2007 in Orlando, Florida at the Caribe Royale All-Suites Resort and Convention Center.
Meeting Handouts:
Meeting Notes:
Fall 2006 Meeting
The fourth meeting of the NIMAS Development Committee was held on Tuesday September 12, and Wednesday September 13, 2006, in Dallas, Texas, at the Dallas-Addison Marriott Quorum by the Galleria.
Meeting Agenda (Microsoft Word download)
Meeting Minutes Day One (Microsoft Word download)
Meeting Minutes Day Two (Microsoft Word download)
Open Issues (Microsoft Word download)
January 2006 Meeting
The third meeting of the NIMAS Development Committee was held on Tuesday January 17, and Wednesday January 18, 2006, in Orlando, Florida, at the Caribe Royale All-Suites Resort and Convention Center.
September 2005 Meeting
The second meeting of the NIMAS Development Committee was held at the Westin Park Central Hotel in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday September 15, and Friday September 16, 2005.
January 2005 Inaugural Meeting
The inaugural meeting of the NIMAS Development Committee was held at the Caribe Royale All-Suites Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday January 18, 2005, and Wednesday January 19, 2005.
Meeting Agenda (Microsoft Word download)
Frederick (Rick) Bowes, III, Electronic Publishing Associates, Consultant, 
American Foundation for the Blind, Duxbury, MA
Deborah V. Buck, Executive Director, Association of Assistive Technology Act Programs (ATAP), Delmar, NY
David Dikter, Executive Director, Assistive Technology Industry Association, Jamaica Plain, MA
Steve Driesler, Executive Director, School Division Association of American Publishers, Washington, DC
Bill East, Executive Director, National Association of State Directors of Special Education, Alexandria, VA
Jim Fruchterman, President & CEO, The Benetech Initiative/Bookshare.org, Palo Alto, CA
Charlene Gaynor, Executive Director, Association of Educational Publishers, Logan Township, NJ
Chuck Hitchcock, Project Director, NIMAS Technical Assistance Center, Chief Education Technology Officer, CAST, Wakefield, MA
Chuck Mayo, Assistant Director, Textbook Administration Division, Texas Education Agency, Austin, TX (National Association of State Textbook Administrators)
Julia Myers, Director of Resource Services, American Printing House for the Blind, Louisville, KY
Mary Ann Siller, Project Manager, Professional Development Department, American Foundation for the Blind, Dallas, TX
Susan Christensen, Braille Production and Software Specialist, Bangor, WI
Boris Goldowsky, Director of Technology, CAST, Wakefield, MA
George Kerscher, Senior Officer, Accessible Information, Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, Secretary General, the DAISY Consortium, Co-chair, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a division of the W3C,
Chairperson, International Digital Publishing Forum, Missoula, MT (ANSI/NISO z39.86 Maintenance Committee)
Steve Noble, Director of Accessibility Policy, Design Science, Inc., Louisville, KY (Learning Disabilities Association of America)
James Pritchett, Manager, Technology Development, Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, Princeton, NJ
Dave Schleppenbach, CEO, gh, LLC, West Lafayette, IN (Assistive Technology Industry Association)
Larry Skutchan, Technology Project Leader, American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., Louisville, KY
Skip Stahl, Project Director, NIMAS Development Center, Director of Technical Assistance, CAST, Wakefield, MA
Jose Blackorby, Program Manager, Disability Policy Program, Associate Director, Center for Education and Human Services, Stanford Research International, Menlo Park, CA (National Center for Learning Disabilities)
Mary Platner, Teacher, Scottsdale Elementary School, Scottsdale, AZ (Council for Exceptional Children)
Richard Robison, Executive Director, Federation for Children with Special Needs, Boston, MA
David Rose, Principal Investigator, NIMAS centers, Co-Executive Director, CAST, Wakefield, MA
Ron Stewart, Director, Technology Access Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR (Association on Higher Education and Disability)
Michael Wehmeyer, Associate Professor, Special Education, University of Kansas, the Beach Center on Disability's, Lawrence, KS (The ARC of the United States)
Ruth Ziolkowski, Assistive Technology Industry Association, Volo, IL
Martha Minow, Professor, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Bonnie Jones, Education Program Specialist, Office of Special Education Programs, United States Department of Education, Washington, DC
David Rose, Principal Investigator
Chuck Hitchcock, Project Director, Technical Assistance
Skip Stahl, Project Director, Development
Boris Goldowsky, Director of Technology
Mindy Johnson, Research Associate
The meetings of the NIMAS Development Committee are open to the public and the notes from Committee meetings are posted online after each meeting.
"A diverse committee of stakeholders-including curriculum publishers, disability advocates and researchers, assistive technology developers, policymakers, educators, and parents-will inform the NIMAS Center's work."
-CAST Application for NIMAS Development Center
The NIMAS Development and Technical Assistance Center, supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), works with states, TA systems, disability advocates, national associations, technology experts, publishers and content conversion houses to improve the timely delivery of high quality accessible educational materials to students with disabilities.The NIMAS Center was launched on October 1, 2004.The project officer for both the Development and TA Centers is Bonnie Jones, Ed.D. Opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent the Department of Education's position or policy.
