[NFB-Conventions] FW: Braille Committee Agenda, Please Post Where Appropriate

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National Federation of the Blind

Committee for the Advancement and Promotion of Braille 

Meeting at #NFB24

Thursday, July 4, 2024

8:30AM

Salon 16


                                                                                                   Agenda


Note: “Two-minute take-aways”, brief Braille-related tips and resources from committee members and other attendees, will be interspersed throughout the agenda. Focused questions for this activity include: 

• Share a tip/technique that works well to help adults learn or improve braille skills.

• Share a resource related to braille learning for people with additional disabilities besides blindness that are thought to affect braille learning.

• Tell us a place you found braille where you were not expecting to find it.

 

8:30 Welcome and Other Comments—Jennifer Dunnam, Committee Chair

8:40 Natural Order of Contractions: A Research Based Method—Dr. Casey West Robertson, Instructor, Teacher of Blind Students Program, Louisiana Tech University.

9:05 ICEB: What it is, What it does, and how you can Help—Dr. Judith Dixon, President, International Council on English Braille

9:25 Braille for Languages other than English—Donald Winiecki, NFB of Idaho member, College Professor, and Braille Transcriber

9:45 Doing Our Part  for Our Kids’ Education—Karen Anderson, Coordinator of Education Programs, National Federation of the Blind

10:05 Making a Difference with Braille: the American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults

10:15Funding the movement

10:20 A Busy Year for BANA—Jennifer Dunnam, National Federation of the Blind’s Representative to the Board of the Braille Authority of North America

10:30 Announcements and Wrap-up

s10:40 Adjourn

 

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