American Printing House (APH) materials may be requested by teacher consultants and orientation and mobility specialists. APH materials are available at no cost to school districts through the Federal Quota Program.


Students must be registered with APH in order to receive APH materials through the Federal Quota Program. Certain products are considered "high-ticket" due to their substantial cost. Requests for high-ticket items will require additional information and must be approved by MDE-LIO.


Repair Policy

It is understood that an item that needs to be repaired must be sent to MDE-LIO via UPS. To receive a UPS return label, you agree to contact MDE-LIO at [email protected].

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Use this form to request APH products you couldn’t find in our inventory. MDE-LIO will order them from APH for students who are eligible for federal quota funds.


Be sure to visit aph.org to order a catalog or search for products online. You will need to know the item name and APH catalog number in order to request items through this form.

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Picture of RC Snap Rover remote control and parts.
Catalog #: 1-03044-00
The RC Snap Rover Access Kit is an innovative tool that provides hands-on electronics education for students. Snap together colorful Snap Circuits® parts to build an RC Snap Rover that can zoom across any surface with the included wireless remote control. Combine the RC Snap Rover with the BRIC: Structures® Access Kit, Snap Circuit Jr®…
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Picture of Snapino box.
Catalog #: 1-03043-00
Snapino, a commercially available product, has been made accessible for students who are blind and visually impaired. Snapino is an introduction to the open-source Arduino® hardware-software coding environment. Use the Snapino with BRIC: Structures® Access Kit , RC Snap Rover Access Kit, and Snap Circuits Jr® kits to design larger circuits with…
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Picture of Spangle Tangle Kit.
Catalog #: 1-08755-00
Fun and educational for children with visual impairments who are haptic (touch) learners. Spangle Tangle provides opportunities for learners to improve visual and tactile attention, communication, and creativity. Through specially designed activities, the learner develops motor, problem-solving, cognitive, self-care, social, and pre-braille…
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Picture of StackUps Kit.
Catalog #: 1-08960-00
StackUps: Spatial Reasoning Cubes and Isometric Drawings is a set of materials designed to assist students with visual impairments and blindness in the interpretation of raised-line graphics depicting 3-dimensional figures, specifically stacked cube arrangements. StackUps, Cubes (set of 20) Catalog Number: 1-08960-01 StackUps…
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Picture of STACS cards.
Catalog #: 1-08815-00
Tactile symbol systems are valuable tools that aid learners with conversations about people, places, events, and ideas. STACS: Standardized Tactile Augmentative Communication Symbols Kit helps learning partners (teachers, parents, peers, etc.) teach a beginning standardized vocabulary. Teachers then introduce additional individualized symbols as…
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Picture of Tactile Book Builder Kit items.
Catalog #: 1-08826-00
The Tactile Book Builder Kit contains a wide selection of materials enabling users to quickly custom-make books of many kinds—firsthand experience storybooks, concept books, simple texture books, informational books, alphabet books, adaptations of print books, and more! A large, varied assortment of pre-cut pages permit easy attachment of objects…
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Catalog #: 61-424-014
Replacement item for Tactile Book Builder Kit (1-08826-00)
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Picture of Tactile Connections Kit.
Catalog #: 1-08837-00
This kit helps teachers create a tactile card system that is individualized for visually impaired and blind learners who have additional disabilities and/or lack a formal means of communication or literacy. The tactile symbols are created when part of an object is mounted on a hand-sized card representing core vocabulary categories (e.g. people,…
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Picture of tactile editing marks kit.
Catalog #: 1-08896-00
The use of tactile editing marks provides beginning writers with a concrete way to indicate changes on their braille drafts as they revise and edit short pieces, enabling students to write final correct copies of their work independently. 
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Picture of tactile graphics kit.
Catalog #: 1-08851-00
This extensive set of materials allows teachers, transcribers, and mobility instructors to create custom tactile graphics. Allows you to create raised-line masters on heavy-gauge aluminum that can be reproduced using a vacuum-form machine. Some of the included tools are also usable on heavy paper. Some examples of custom-created graphics:Raised-…
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No items available for loan. However, you can still request the product for APH eligible students. We will order one with federal quota funds.
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Catalog #: 7-08851-00
Replacement item for Tactile Graphics Kit: 1-08851-00.
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Catalog #: 1-08439-00
Tactile Tangram Kit includes: • Magnetic-backed Tangram Puzzle Pieces (for use on a metal surface) • Translucent Tangram Puzzle Pieces (for use on a light box) • Foam Tangram Puzzle Pieces • Tactile/Print Puzzle Frame — outline images in which to arrange puzzle pieces • Tactile/Print Puzzle Solutions showing a dissected view of each puzzle image…
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Picture of Tactile Town Kit.
Catalog #: 1-03135-00
Tactile Town is inviting to both tactile and visual learners, with attractive, customizable, and flexible pieces incorporating contrasting colors, textures, and recognizable features. The Kit assists in the development of cognitive mapping skills by helping students perceive and organize their physical environment specific to concepts such as…
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Catalog #: 61-151-312
Replacement item for Tactile Treasure Kit: 1-08842-01.
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Catalog #: 1-08842-01
Tactile Treasures is packaged as a complete kit consisting of the following: Three individual binders housing a total of 79 white thermoformed sheets (8 1/2 x 11 inches). Both braille and incised print page numbers appear on each sheet for ease of reference. The tactile graphics contents of each binder are as follows: Binder I: Shape and Size…
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