CAPTIONED FILMS AND EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.

SEC. 602. CAPTIONED FILMS AND EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES. Section 652 (20 U.S.C. 1452) is amended— (1) in the heading for such section, by inserting “, television, descriptive video,”after “films;” (2) in subsection (a), by inserting “, descriptive video,” after “captioned films”; (3) in subsection (b)— (A) in paragraph (3), by striking “captioning of films” and inserting “captioning for deaf and hard of hearing individuals and video description for the visually impaired, of films, television programs, and video materials”; and (B) in paragraph (4)— (i) by striking “captioned films” and inserting “captioned and video-described films, video materials,”; and (ii) inserting “or entities” after “agencies”; (C) in paragraph (8), by inserting “and hard of hearing” after “deaf’; (4) in subsection (c), by— (A) inserting “and other appropriate non-profit organizations” after “Inc.”; and (B) striking “theatrical” and inserting “cultural”; (5) in subsection (c)(1), by inserting “and hard of hearing” after “deaf”; (6) in subsection (c)(2), by inserting “and hard of hearing” after “deaf’; and (7) in subsection (c)(3), (A) by inserting “and hard of hearing” after “deaf’, and (B) by inserting “, educational, and social” after “cultural”. (8) by adding at the end the following new subsection: 104 STAT. 1140 “(d) (1) The Secretary is authorized to make a grant or enter into a contract for the purpose of providing current, free textbooks and other educational publications and materials to blind and other printhandicapped students in elementary, secondary, postsecondary, and graduate schools and other institutions of higher education through the medium of transcribed tapes and cassettes. “(2) For the purpose of this subsection, the term ‘printhandicapped’ refers to any individual who is blind or severely visually impaired, or who, by reason of a physical or perceptual disability, is unable to read printed material unassisted.”.