[Blindtlk] FW: [BANA-Announce] BANA Announces Spring Meeting in St. Louis

[Chris Nusbaum]

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Subject: [BANA-Announce] BANA Announces Spring Meeting in St. Louis

 



Press Release

March 2012

For Immediate Release

CONTACT: Frances Mary D'Andrea, Chair

Braille Authority of North America

Phone: 412-521-5797

Email:  <mailto:literacy2 at mindspring.com> literacy2 at mindspring.com

 

BANA Invites Guests to Spring Board Meeting in St. Louis

The Braille Authority of North America (BANA), which meets semiannually,
will hold its spring meeting on April 28-30, 2012, in St. Louis, Missouri.
This meeting is hosted by the National Braille Association (NBA), a BANA
member organization, and will be held following the NBA Conference, which is
April 25-28. All meetings will take place at the Hilton St. Louis Frontenac,
located at 1335 South Lindbergh Drive, St. Louis, Missouri.

BANA will host an Open Forum on Saturday morning, April 28, at 9:00 AM. This
forum provides an opportunity for participants to learn more about the
workings of BANA and to provide feedback to the Board about braille. BANA
Board members want to hear participants' views about issues surrounding
braille and its future. Braille readers, teachers, and producers of braille
are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to participate in a
round-table discussion and to engage in a dialogue with the members of the
BANA Board. To reserve your space at the Open Forum and to help ensure
accurate counts for handouts, contact Frances Mary D'Andrea at 412-521-5797
or by email at literacy2 at mindspring.com. 

Guests are invited to attend the BANA Board meetings and to observe the
discussions. Items on the Board's agenda include reports from all of BANA's
committees as well as several presentations in response to BANA's recent
article regarding the need for braille code change. Peter Osborne, Chair of
the United Kingdom Association for Accessible Formats (UKAAF), will be in
attendance and will provide an international perspective. To reserve a seat,
please contact BANA Chair Frances Mary D'Andrea.

For additional resource information, visit
<http://www.brailleauthority.org/> www.brailleauthority.org

 

The mission and purpose of the Braille Authority of North America are to
assure literacy for tactile readers through the standardization of braille
and/or tactile graphics. BANA promotes and facilitates the use, teaching,
and production of braille. It publishes rules, interprets, and renders
opinions pertaining to braille in all existing codes. It deals with codes
now in existence or to be developed in the future, in collaboration with
other countries using English braille. In exercising its function and
authority, BANA considers the effects of its decisions on other existing
braille codes and formats; the ease of production by various methods; and
acceptability to readers. 

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