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Unlocking Access: Texas Tech Loans and APH Materials 
4/27/26

>>Carrie: I am Carrie Gillespie. I am an AT consultant and mainly for low vision students in TSBVI Outreach. I am responsible for the electronic equipment tech loans that we have as well as APH high-cost technology items in the State of Texas using federal quota funds. So even though federal quota funds are throughout each state, each state does it very differently. Again, this is going to be pretty specific to the State of Texas, like Kaycee said. I'm first going to talk about our tech loans. We recently revamped our process and updated our website for tech loan items. I'm going to go through that process with you today to kind of show you how it works. If you need to borrow something for a student, either you're doing an AT evaluation or you want to try something out, we do have some items in stock in Outreach that we allow for loan. So I'm going to go through that process. Let me go ahead and go to our website. Hold on. So if you are on the TSBVI website, the first thing you're going to do to locate both things I'm talking about today is -- but they're also going to put them in the chat. You're going to go to TSBVI and then "Statewide Resources" is one of the menu items. It's the sixth menu item in the list. And then you're going to go down to the third item, which is Outreach Services. On this website, if you scroll a little bit, there are several different links on here where we have our consultation and training requests, American Printing House, which I will go over in a little bit, and then there is tech loan, in addition to Braille resources. I'm going to talk about tech loan today. So directly from here you can click on the link for Tech Loan and it's going to bring you to a page that provides that information, which I will do in a moment. But I want to point out also that there are two links right in this spot. One that says "electronic equipment tech loan" and one that says "active Learning tech loan." Active Learning items are specific for Active Learning but they're not necessarily technology but it is tech. It is low tech. It's still considered assistive technology. So there's two different types and I am the one that runs the electronic equipment tech loan and Sara Kitchen, her contact information is the one that is the contact for the Active Learning tech loan. So I'm going to go to the Tech Loan page to start. Okay. So what is the Assistive Technology Loan Program? Obviously, it's a lending library for students for assistive technology items, for them to thrive in the classroom. This was originally established with support from -- I know I'm going to say this wrong, so please forgive me. Hoblitzelle Foundation. I am not sure. And federal funds that were awarded through the Texas Education Agency, or TEA. So it's a way that we can provide equipment to be loaned to students in districts who maybe aren't quite sure if it's the right technology or the right item for their student. They want to try it out before purchasing it. So we have short-term loans for that equipment and they are supposed to help integrate seamlessly. So electronic equipment made to adapt to your school district's computer systems for accessible use. They support independence and facilitate learning. Eligibility. This is for any student in the State of Texas who is eligible for services as a student with a visual impairment. So as long as they are living in the State of Texas, you can request to borrow any of these items. So again, I mentioned earlier that there are two types of Tech Loan items. The first one is electronic equipment and that would be electronic hardware. Sometimes software is not something that we usually have because it's usually pretty accessible, the software that you would need for your VI kids would be like zoom text or JAWS or actually it's Fusion now. Those are accessible through APH, anyway. But we do have items such as CCTV video magnifiers -- and they're not all APH items. There are items that are not just APH. Maybe some hand held video magnifiers that we have. Refreshable Braille displays, Braille notetakers and so on. The Active Learning over here, some of the -- or the other types of items would be an Essef Board, HOPSA Dress, Little Rooms, vibration board. When we go to look at the Active Learning equipment in a minute, there's a large catalog list that you can kind of look through. I do want to emphasized that both of these requests are very different from each other, okay? The electronic equipment request has an application right on that site. So let's go there first. Let's go to that page. So this is if you want to borrow anything that is electronic that we have in our catalog. These loans, these are the procedures. These loans can range from about two to three months but they do need to be returned by the end of the school year. So if you happen to have any of these items in your school district right now that have been loaned to you from us at TSBVI Outreach, please make sure that at the end of the school year that you get those returned back to us. And those would go to TSBVI warehouse, attention my name. That way I know that they give it to me so that it can go back into our tech loan. There's a lot that we receive in our warehouse, so that's really important. And then it has the address. So once you decide that you may need something for your student -- again, these are not for purchase, these are just for loans -- and you're going to complete the electronic equipment tech loan application. And it's a Google form. I'm going to go ahead and go through this with you so you can kind of see it's a very simple form. We have made it much smaller than it used to be. All right. Here we go. So electronic equipment tech loan application. It just has a little bit of information on the top. Must be completed in full. If you have any questions, my e-mail is on this form as well as the website so you can always reach out if you have questions ahead of time. Again, this is for electronic requests. If you are wanting to request an APH item through federal quota funds, that is a totally separate process, which I will go over at the end of this session today. So that is very different. That is for purchase using federal quota funds. Even though you don't technically own them, they are owned by the State of Texas so they are kind of lent out to you but this is a separate process. This is loaning you guys equipment for temporary use whereas federal quota funds, as long as your student is using the equipment, then you are able to continue to keep that with that student. Okay. So again, not a lot of questions. It will ask for your e-mail. It's really important that your e-mail is typed in correctly because that's what we use to contact you. And if it's typed wrong, then it's going to come back to us. And so there's no other way to get in touch with you. Your name. We do need the name of the student. This is confidential form. The reason we need the name of the student and the district and the region is because we want to make sure that that student is in the State of Texas. So that is really important that it is a VI student in the State of Texas. And then the accessible device. You're just going to pull down and these are some of the items that we have in our catalog. So Braille Note Touch. We have a couple of those. Candy 5, explore 5, explore 8, CCTVs. We do have Prodigy. Reveal 16 and Ruby magnifier. We may have some other items or we may get new items in the future. When there are new items added to our catalog, we will add them to this form. You will select what you're looking for, maybe Braille Note Touch. Then your shipping address. This is really important because with APH, a lot of I will get addresses that are not correct. Sometimes people will put in the correct street, city, and state but put in the wrong ZIP code. If it has the wrong ZIP code, I don't necessarily know it's the wrong ZIP code so sometimes it will be sent out and then we get it back because it did not go to where it was supposed to go. So it's really important that you're careful when you put in your shipping address because sometimes I think people, by mistake, put their own ZIP code like where they live, instead of the ZIP code where the item is going. So just be careful when you complete that form. And then I always, personally, like to have a copy of my responses for Google Forms that I do, just so I have documentation of what was submitted. So I would always choose that and then submit. So it's a very simple application. Not a lot of questions. Once you complete the application, then I will reach out to you and we will -- there will be a written agreement prepared with Docusign that explains the items in details, the responsibility of the receiving agency for the equipment, use, repair, and return. Because this is a loaned item, if it is damaged, it is your responsibility for the repair or for the replacement. So keep that in mind when you're borrowing something through the Tech Loan. But all this is laid out in the Docusign document. And then the local agency, so that would be the school district, must sign that they accept responsibility for that. So that may be possibly your director or somebody above you. I don't know. It just depends on, in hierarchy, what you guys are supposed to do for each individual school district. So the equipment for these electronic devices will be sent directly to the school district via FedEx or UPS. I think we usually use FedEx. That way, we can track the items. If it is lost and doesn't get there, then we will have the tracking number for that. So same thing at the conclusion of the loan, the school district who borrowed it is responsible for the return of the equipment. And that also needs to be sent UPS, USPS, or FedEx where they can track it. Unfortunately, because these are high-cost items, if you were to use free matter for the blind, there would be no way to track it and if it were to be lost it would be the responsibility of the school district to be replaced. So please do not use Free Matter for the Blind for your shipping when you are sending items back. If you live locally -- or you can always reach out and see if somebody in Outreach is driving in that area, we can try to pick it up. Maybe I'm going to Dallas and you guys are in Dallas, or something along those lines. You can also bring it directly to the school if you happen to be in town. Or you can ship it but it has to be something that is tracked. And that is pretty much it for the electronic equipment. So on the bottom of this page, it has my information. Reach out to me with any questions about any electronic equipment technology that you have questions about. Okay? Are there any other questions specific just to the electronic equipment tech loan? Kaycee, any questions? 

>>Kaycee: No questions yet. 

>>Carrie: Okay. I'm now going to briefly talk about the Active Learning tech loan. That link is here as well. The main page we started with, you can go to it directly from there or it's under the left of the menu. So the procedures for the Active Learning items, again, is a little different. Loan period is up to three months. They could be extended if other districts are not needing those items. They are loaned to provide specific student access based on their assessment data. So basically, the student information will be needed to proceed. Whereas in the AT electronic devices, I understand, we understand that you may be evaluating a student. A student might be trying something out. So maybe you haven't determined what the student needs yet. Whereas, with the Active Learning, Sara Kitchen wants to make sure that the equipment that you are getting is going to meet the needs for your student. So for the Active Learning, AT assessment of the fine and gross motor section of the functional assessment or reports from an OT/PT that can support the student's use of the equipment. She would like for you to reach out to her first and have a conversation and discuss the needs of your student before actually getting the application so that you know how to best fill out that application. And it is a different application. So there is not a link to the application on this website because you will reach out to Sara Kitchen directly and have that conversation first before she will send you the application, okay? Once you guys have all that information figured out, you know what you want for your student, she sends you the application, and you complete it, then it's going to be very similar to what the processes were for the electronic equipment. There will be a written agreement again via Docusign. Local agency is responsible for the equipment. And then TSBVI Outreach staff, district staff, and Education Service Center staff will coordinate the Active Learning equipment transfer. These items sometimes are quite large, the Active Learning equipment. And so they are not usually going to be shipped in the mail. So Sara will help coordinate how to get that equipment to you. In the event that the equipment is damaged or lost, TSBVI Outreach should be contacted to coordinate the repair of the equipment. And that's for the electronic as well. If there's any damaged equipment, please reach out and let us know right away. At the conclusion of the loan, the agency who borrowed it is responsible for returning the equipment. Again, we can try to coordinate that to get it back to TSBVI. Again, do not send Free Matter for the Blind. If it's lost due to Free Matter for the Blind, then the agency is financially responsible for covering the cost of the replacement. Sara Kitchen's information is on here. It's kitchens@tsbvi.edu is her e-mail. She's a VI educational specialist on our VI team. You reach out to her when you have a need for your student that you're looking to request something. Active Learning equipment items. There's quite a catalog here. I'm just going to read a few of them but if you were to go click into them, it will give you a little bit more detail. For example, this is a bead chain holder. Talks about some of the skills that is our All right. Let's make sure I covered everything. Yeah, I think I covered everything. Again, just to reemphasize where you go to to find this information, if you go to the TSBVI website, Texas School for the Blind, go to statewide resources in the menu, and then go down to Outreach Services and that is where the tech loan information is. It's one of the links on this page. So this is also the same site that you go to to find the tech loan -- sorry. APH, American Printing House information. You're going to go to the Texas School for the Blind website, statewide resources, Outreach Services, and on the second item to the right on the menu is American Printing House. So we're going to go there next and talk about APH in the State of Texas. Okay. Before we go too deep into the APH processes -- because I have gone through these in a Coffee Hour before. I'm not going to go into super big detail. But I just want to make sure that everybody knows that when you are looking for the most current information on APH and the State of Texas and our processes and procedures, that you always go to the website. Because that is where the current information is always going to be. That's going to have the most current forms to use. I know some people may save a form from, you know, or do a shortcut to it but it is always best to go directly to this website to make sure that you are completing the correct form. Because if you're completing a form from another year or it was updated, then it may not go through. And you may be sitting there twiddling your thumbs like, hmm, I wonder what's going on with my request. I haven't heard anything. Please, please, please always go to the TSBVI APH Quota Funds website to get the most current information. We made some changes this year with returning equipment and materials back to Texas School for the Blind. The only thing that we want returned to us at Texas School for the Blind would be high-cost items. High-cost technology items. When your student is no longer needing those items or if the items are damaged and broken and they need repair. So we do not want consumables, which we consider almost everything else consumables because even some of the kits that may not be really what you would think consumable may not be complete. And so if you return them to us, then we may have an incomplete set that wouldn't really be helpful to send out to another teacher. So please, please, please only return high-cost technology items. That includes Perkins Braillers. If you are no longer needing a Braille Note Touch or a smart Brailler, you can return those to us because we can see about if it's a simple repair or something like that. We do repair the old metal Perkins Braillers. Please do not throw those out. So if you have an older metal Perkins Brailler -- and you'll know the difference on your Braillers if it starts with an LT. If it has LT, then that is a light touch Brailler on the serial number. And it's usually right on the front of the Brailler. If it doesn't say LT, it is probably an original metal Perkins Brailler and you cannot get those directly through APH anymore. But we are still repairing those because they are stronger sometimes than the light touch Braillers. Please return those. I will explain the return process in a little bit. But I just wanted, since the end of the year is coming, if you do have any equipment that is not going to be used by a student next year or if you're not sure and you want to wait until August, that's fine as well. But if you do have equipment come August, beginning of school year that is not being used by a student, please go ahead and send it back to us so that we can maybe refurbish it and send it out to another student in the future. We do have funds still, which is good. We are not usually in this good of a situation with our quota funds. So if there are things that you are in need of that you know you are in need of, then I would go ahead and continue to put in those requests and put them in through the summer and get ready so you have what you need when school starts. Again, only return items that are electronic or that are high-cost technology items or the Perkins Braillers. And don't return other equipment or materials. And go ahead and get your quota fund requests in now. Because we are still processing those and we still have the funds to do it so you're not , you know, have a student waiting for something come August when school starts. Okay. Let's go ahead and look at the process for the federal quota funds briefly. So federal quota funds, this is funds we get per student in the State of Texas. It is all managed by Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and TEA. TEA is the ex officio trustee of everything of the APH Quota Funds. But it all goes through us. So it's not like some states everybody gets a certain allotment and they log in themselves and they use their money until it's gone. It doesn't work that way in the State of Texas. In the State of Texas, it is one large fund and we will continue to fulfill requests as long as the fund exists. And they still exist for now. That doesn't mean to buy frivolously. Buy what you need. Buy what your students need. We don't want stuff sitting in a closet. We don't want stuff purchased, well, maybe we'll use this. We want it being used properly. And being used for when students actually have the need, okay? So just keep that in mind. All right. So the process for requesting APH materials with federal quota funds in Texas. There are two contact people for high-cost technology items and returns, you would contact myself, Carrie Gillespie. Gillespiec@tsbvi.edu. For general items, all other materials, Fusion licenses and repairs, currently it is Suzanne Slade at slades@tsbvi.edu but we are transitioning and Suzanne and another one of our colleagues is going to be taking over that part of APH, I believe next year. It's not official yet. So as soon as he is going to be taking that over, then we will update the website with that contact information. But until then, you can always reach out to myself as well as Suzanne. I do not work in the summer. I do summer programs So after about the second week of June, I'm not always checking my e-mail but I will check my e-mail at least once a week, even when I'm no longer working. There might be a delay in a response if you have questions over the summer. But go ahead and continue. You can reach out to me at any time to ask those questions. Okay? So I want to point out a couple of things that when teachers put in requests where mistakes sometimes happen and it can delay processing of those requests. First of all, it's really important that you type in the correct item name and number. And this is for any request. I mean, Fusion, that's pretty easy. That request form you're requesting a Fusion license so there's not much more to the Fusion request, as it's the only thing you can request on that form. You can request up to ten. So if you have like, oh, I have ten licenses of Fusion and I need to renew them come October, you can do them all at once -- well, you can do up to ten quantity of licenses. We put in your e-mail information and that e-mail goes directly to you with the login or the download information for those licenses. Okay? APH product requests, which right now that's Suzanne Slade but that's probably going to transition to this other colleague. That is called the APH Product Request Form. And you can have up to ten catalog products perform. Let me show you what that form looks like. I'm just going to go through this with you. APH Product Request Form. I'm going to put in my e-mail first. Make sure your e-mail is correct because, see, did I type it right? Yes, I did. If you type it incorrect, we are going to see it incorrectly on our spreadsheet and when we try to reach out to you, we are going to get it back to us. That is one mistake I see a lot is people quickly type in their e-mail incorrectly. Please be very careful when you type in your e-mail. And then first name, last name, your school district. We'll just say TSBVI. And then it comes to street address. You cannot have items sent to P.O. boxes so keep that in mind. Make sure you type in the correct street address, the correct city, and the correct ZIP code. What is our -- I'm just going to put in 45th Street. 1100 West 45th Street. Austin is the city. Oops, I just forgot what that ZIP code was. 78756. I don't use the Austin ZIP code all that often so this is where I see the mistake happening a lot. People will put in the wrong ZIP code and probably like their own personal ZIP code. And sometimes items will come back from us or APH will reach out and say, hey, we got this item return to sender. Please make sure you put in the correct ZIP code and the correct address. And if it's like numbers or south or north or west or east, again, make sure that those are in there correctly because that also seems to be something that is not found within the APH request system. There might be an east and a west and so if it doesn't have the W, it's probably going to the wrong place. And they'll say, oh, there's nothing here and they'll send it back to us. Please make sure that you put in the address correctly. And then this is where you would put in on the second page the product name and the catalog number. And then how many you want. And then also the price. So the price helps us track what we're spending on our spreadsheet. So that's why we ask for the price. The best thing to do is go to the APH website directly and put in whatever you're looking for. So I'm going to put in Paige Connect, because that's something new and current. Paige Connect. If I want this Paige Connect, I'm going to put in the title. I'm going to put the catalog number, which is 1-08570-00. And then I'm going to put the cost, which is $339 into that form. Because that way we have the product, the catalog numbers. If you just put the product name, we don't know every product in the system for APH so sometimes there's paper that is very similar and they'll say like Braille paper. We need the specific catalog number of the type of Braille paper you're looking for. So that's why that catalog number is super important. And then you can request up to, I believe, ten items in quantity. So if it was Braille paper and you wanted like five boxes of this Braille paper, then you can request five boxes of that paper. So that's the regular product form. I'm not going to finish that whole form out. But just so you can have an idea of how that works. Fusion, I'll quickly show you that. Same thing. E-mail, first name, last name, district, street address, city, ZIP code, and license item. There's only one license anymore. There used to be JAWS and zoom text separate but now it's just Fusion. You would just put Fusion in the pulldown and the amount that you want and then whatever the price is. I think it's $225 now. We usually update that in there for you so you don't have to type it in. That's the Fusion request. Again, pretty simple process. And then the high-cost technology request form. This is the one that has a few more steps that go with it. Remember, we get hundreds of these requests, especially the regular product requests, so please, please, please request, you know, as early as you can. You know, it will take a couple of weeks to get it processed by us, if not a month for the regular products because there's so many requests. So if you know you have a student new coming to district or they just qualify and you know you're going to need a Brailler, please go ahead and request. 

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>>Kaycee: This is Kaycee. It looks like Carrie is frozen. I'm glad somebody put it in the chat. Is it me or Carrie? It looks like Carrie is frozen. I believe she will be back in just a moment and then once she comes back on, I will make sure she sees your question about the paper being discontinued. Just a second to log back in. While we're waiting, will you share in the chat, just say "me" if you have used the Texas Tech Loan process before. Put "me" in the chat. I'm curious how many of you have used our Tech Loan before. Nobody? Nobody. Okay. Well, hopefully now that you know it exists, you can borrow some technology and try out some different things. I think it's cool that the low-tech tech is included in that, like the Active Learning HOPSA dresses. Those things are expensive. She has used the Texas AT loan library but not the TSBVI one. Interesting. Good. Hopefully, that's a new resource for you guys then. While we're waiting for Carrie, I'm going to read Shelly's question. Somebody in the audience might have an idea for Shelly. Since APH discontinued the large paper, the 11x14 size, is there another funding source for that paper? She's able to order it on Amazon but is looking for a different funding source for that paper. Has anybody found something that has worked or have any ideas of ways to fund that paper purchase, since it has been discontinued from APH? Maybe SSVI funds. Is there any grant or any other things that you can think of that Shelly could access to purchase that paper? Great idea. Ben suggested reaching out to your ESC rep and asking if it's something they can support. Great idea. We'll give Carrie just another minute to see if she's able to get back in. Here she comes. 

>>Carrie: I'm back. I don't know what happened. My Zoom has been acting up. I am so sorry, y'all. Can I go ahead and finish? I think I'm good now. 

>>Kaycee: Absolutely. 

>>Carrie: I'm so sorry, everybody. My Zoom has been very weird. Like, I didn't even get the links today and all of a sudden I was just going to that document and it just went away. So, okay. Let me share my screen real quick again. I'm not going to go into the form because I don't know if that was my issue or if it was my internet. I think it's just being really slow. Let me go ahead, while it's coming up, just talk about a couple of things. 

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I wanted to say one more thing about requests for your student. What we've noticed a lot lately is that a school district will request like two Braillers for a student. So they could have one at home and one at school. We've even had some requests up to four or five Braillers so that they could have one in each classroom. And although that is really great to be able to have more than one of a device, unfortunately using federal quota funds, we are only able to buy one device of that device for that student. So if a school district decides in an IEP or they just think that it's best for that student to have more than one of a specific device, then they, unfortunately, would have to use their own types of funding to purchase those additional devices, or in this case of a Brailler, additional Braillers. Just keep that in mind that we can only approve one request of that item for that student. Now, of course if it breaks or they've had it now for four years and it's no longer working anymore, we can either get it repaired or we can replace that item. So we're not saying we can't ever get them another one again if one breaks but we can't have them have multiple of the same devices at the same time. So hopefully that makes a little bit of sense. And you can purchase directly through APH if you are the ones that are going to be funding those purchases. So I just wanted to kind of point that out to you guys while we were getting back to here. Okay. Let me try this one more time. High-cost technology request. Okay. So here we are on the high-cost technology form and again you're going to put your e-mail, first name, last name, address, ZIP code, district. On the high-cost request form, we do request the student name. We need to make sure that the students that are getting these high-cost items, using federal quota funds, are on the VI Registry, which is why it's really important for your students to be on the -- get put on the VI Registry every year. And that includes homeschool students. If you have a student who maybe is in your district now and then they're going to be leaving and being homeschooled, then please pass that information on to those parents so that if they do have TBI services, they can make sure they put that student on the VI Registry as a homeschool student. Because that's how they are eligible for the federal quota funds, to get items through APH. We're really trying to get the homeschool information out to people in the State of Texas so that when a student becomes homeschooled, they are still eligible for federal quota funds as long as they are on the VI Registry every year, put back on it. Please keep that in mind. Pass information along. If you're a TVI that works with lots of school districts or you work with homeschool students, keep that in mind so those students can get counted every year. That's how our funds get accumulated or get determined by the federal government. We do request the student grade on the high-cost item so we can make sure that this is an appropriate item for that student. And then here we actually have a pull-down instead of you having to type it all in. So these are the items that you would request using high-cost technology form. If they are not on this form, then you would use the regular product. Again, these are high-cost technology so there may be other APH items that are of high cost. They're not all going to be on here. This is only going to be the high-cost technology items. And so we're considering the Brailler, light touch Brailler, smart Brailler, Chameleon 20, which is Braille display. The Juno, it's a smaller screen magnifier. The Jupiter, the Mantis Q40, the Mat Connect. Neptune is a new item, which is an OCR reader. So I think in the fall it's probably going to be something that I do a Coffee Hour on to show how that works a little bit, along with some of the other APH new items. And then we've got the two embossers, which are Pageblaster and pics blaster and the Poly. It is important that you put the current price so it calculates correctly. These do fluctuate. That's why we don't have the actual price on there. You need to type that in. Make sure the addresses are correct and so on. Now, what's going to happen is once you submit this form, you will get an e-mail that says you submitted it. And then I will go through those lists of those items. I go through weekly, sometimes a couple times a week. It depends on how busy my schedule is. And then I will send you a justification form. And that is a form that you need to complete for the process to continue with your request. We don't ask that on this first one but I will send an e-mail after I go through the list and send it out to you directly. And that's where you kind of give a little bit more information about your student, why they need this item. Have they been evaluated for this item? Is this a brand new item? Maybe it's something you have not tried before and maybe you just want to look and see if we have one in the Tech Loan to try it out before we actually purchase one using the federal quota funds. Just keep that in mind. It's a two-part process. I will say there's probably 50 to 60 requests that have gone through this year and they didn't do the second part once I sent out the justification form. If you don't do that second part, eventually that item is just canceled unless you reach back out. So just keep that in mind if you're like, hmm, I haven't gotten that item yet. Did I do everything right? It's possible that you did not do the second part, which is to complete that justification form. So this is not something [Lapse in Audio] but it is something that we need you to do for the high-cost items. I do go on the student registry and make sure that the student is on the VI Registry before we can process that. Okay. Let's quickly talk about returns and repairs. So for repairs, right now it says contact Suzanne Slade. That is probably going to change for the upcoming school year, if there are items that need to be repaired. If it's something that is not -- that we are able to get repaired with APH, then we will still request you to send those items back to us. If it's something the student still needs, it's broken and they need another one, we will check to see if we have anything in the warehouse to send out to you. Or maybe we have an item in the Tech Loan and if those are exhausted and we just don't have any more to send to you, then you will go through the process of returning that item. We will get it repaired and then you need to request another high-cost -- complete another high-cost technology request form. And the reason is because we need to have documentation for every single item that we purchased with federal quota funds. And if I'm having to purchase you a new one because we have none to lend you or to send out to you, then we need to have that documentation, just like any other request. Again, remember this is not a cost to the school districts. Sometimes I get e-mails where people say, well, how much funds do I have left to spend? It does not work that way in the State of Texas. It's a one large lump sum and we will purchase the items with those funds until they are no longer available. Which, again, we're in a good place right now so that's a good thing. Even though we get funds per student, you may need something for your student this year and you may not need -- that costs, you know, more money than is allotted per student. For example, maybe you need a Jupiter. Those can be kind of expensive. But next year you won't need a Jupiter because their Jupiter is fine, it's working. It all goes year by year. The funds are one big fund. You don't run out of money for your students, necessarily, or lose any money for your students, okay? And then the last thing I want to go over is returns. We are almost done. Kaycee is going to go over the code and stuff with y'all. Under "returns" there's a whole page for that. And there's a form. And please, when you complete this form, put your name, district, charter school, serial number, item being returned. The main thing is is it working or not? You might send me an e-mail but we might get multiple things in the warehouse and I need to know when I open that box is this a working item or not, is very helpful. You could complete the form and print it, once you submit it. You should get an e-mail confirmation but I have noticed some people have said they didn't get an e-mail confirmation. It might go to your spam. You could print it before you send it off. It helps us to understand to know what we get in the mail. Again, because this is high-cost technology items, please do not send as free matter for the blind. Unfortunately, that cost is on the district. It needs to be done through UPS or FedEx or something like that. And that address is also on this page. And that is all I have. If there's any quick questions before we need to give the code for the day. Were there any questions, Kaycee? 

>>Kaycee: Sara was talking about the homeschool families. If a homeschool student doesn't have a VI teacher, can the family put themselves on the VI Registry? 

>>Carrie: How did they get on the registry? So I think it's -- I don't know the deadline for that. 

>>Kaycee: There's a Google form that the families of homeschool and private schools or private school families can fill out to give information. And then he takes that information and is able to get them on the registry, which gives them access to this resource. 

>>Carrie: To the federal quota funds. Yeah. I don't know the deadline. But it opens in -- does it open in January, maybe? 

>>Kaycee: But this is our process [Indiscernible] information and knowledge about. Stay tuned for more information on that. We're hoping to have a better system to get that information out to homeschool families. Maria says January 31. Thank you, Maria. 

>>Carrie: Yeah. And the home school funds are separate from the rest of the State of Texas funds. When we don't get the homeschool students on the VI Registry, then that funding is much smaller and so there's less funds to go around for students. So we are trying to revamp that or at least get better information for parents and TVIs that work with homeschool students so they can get on that registry every year and qualify for the quota funds items.