For the purpose of this subpart:

1. (1) “Adaptive textbooks and other instructional materials” means:

   1. (A) Braille;
   2. (B) Large print; and
   3. (C) Other electronic media;
2. (2) “Braille skills inventory” means 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;
3. (3) “Functional vision assessment” means data gathered by a certified teacher of the visually impaired that provides evidence of a child's use of visual ability in near and distance tasks;
4. (4) “IDEA” means the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act;
5. (5) “IEP” means the individualized education program for a child with disabilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq.;
6. (6) “Informal reading inventories (IRIs)” means commercially available IRIs that 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;
7. (7) “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; and
8. (8) “Reading rates” are measured using informal reading inventories and content texts and are one (1) component of the data needed to determine efficiency in a child's current literacy media.