[nabop] Fwd: [BANA-Announce] BANA Approves Two Guidance Documents at Spring Meeting

[David Andrews]

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>    Press Release
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>June 2018
>For Immediate Release
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>Contact: Jennifer Dunnam, Chair
>Braille Authority of North America
>612-767-5658
><mailto:chair at brailleauthority.org>chair at brailleauthority.org
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>BANA Approves Two Guidance Documents,
>Announces New Treasurer and Board Members
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>The Braille Authority of North America (BANA) 
>held its spring 2018 meeting April 9-11 at the 
>Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel. The meeting 
>was hosted by the Alternate Text Production 
>Center of the California Community Colleges 
>(ATPC) and immediately preceded the annual 
>meeting of the California Transcribers and 
>Educators for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CTEBVI).
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>During its three-day meeting, the BANA Board 
>reviewed semiannual reports from its eighteen 
>general and technical committees—each of which 
>works on specific charges frrom the Board—and 
>acted on recommendations from these committees. 
>Portions of the Monday and Tuesday meetings were 
>dedicated to further development of BANA's strategic planning.
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>The Board approved two guidance documents 
>entitled Graphing Calculator Guidelines and a 
>revision of Guidance for Transcription Using the 
>Nemeth Code within UEB Contexts, which will be 
>released in the near future. A document approved 
>during a previous BANA meeting, Provisional 
>Guidance for Transcription Using the Chemistry 
>Code within UEB Contexts, is now available in 
>print and BRF versions on the BANA website. This 
>website posting also includes a link through 
>which comments can be addressed to the authoring committee.
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>Jessica (Jessi) Rivera, representing Associated 
>Services for the Blind, was elected BANA 
>treasurer to replace Jaclyn (Jackie) Sheridan, 
>who for personal reasons cannot complete her 
>term of office. BANA welcomed two new Board 
>members—Whhitney Gregory from Braille Solutions, 
>Region 4 Educational Service Center and Tina 
>Seger from Clovernook Center for the Blind and 
>Visually Impaired. Horizons for the Blind has 
>also appointed a new Board member, Cynthia (Cindy) Skandera.
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>NOTE: This press release is available in HTML on 
>the BANA website at 
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>The mission of the Braille Authority of North 
>America is to assure literacy for tactile 
>readers through the standardization of braille and/or tactile graphics.


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