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Press Release

October 15, 2014

For Immediate Release

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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 Offers New Publication-The UEB Reader

The Braille Authority of North America (BANA) is pleased to make available
The UEB Reader, a resource designed to introduce braille readers to Unified
English Braille (UEB). This introductory hardcopy braille booklet
incorporates into one document several key resources found on the BANA
website. The UEB Reader is available free of charge upon request.

The UEB Reader includes content from BANA's publication, Overview of Changes
from Current Literary Braille to UEB, plus several example documents
transcribed in UEB for readers to use as practice. This resource was
compiled to help current braille readers become more familiar with UEB and
to assist braille readers, transcribers, teachers, and families as they make
the transition to UEB.

To receive a free braille copy of The UEB Reader, contact Kim Charlson at
<mailto:kim.charlson at perkins.org> kim.charlson at perkins.org with your name
and address for mailing purposes. Requests for the UEB Reader including your
name, address, and phone number can also be left on the UEB Information Line
at 617-972-7248.

NOTE: This press release is available in HTML on the BANA website at
http://www.brailleauthority.org/pressreleases/pr-2014-10-15.htmlt 

 

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

The Board of BANA consists of appointed representatives from seventeen
member organizations of braille producers, transcribers, teachers, and
consumers.

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. 

 

The purpose of BANA is to promote and to facilitate the uses, teaching, and
production of braille. Pursuant to this purpose, BANA will promulgate rules,
make interpretations, and render opinions pertaining to braille codes and
guidelines for the provisions of literary and technical materials and
related forms and formats of embossed materials now in existence or to be
developed in the future for the use of blind persons in North America. When
appropriate, BANA shall accomplish these activities in international
collaboration with countries using English braille. In exercising its
function and authority, BANA shall consider the effects of its decisions on
other existing braille codes and guidelines, forms and formats; ease of
production by various methods; and acceptability to readers.

 

 

 

 

 

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