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<div align="center"><b><a name="_GoBack"></a>Press Release<br>
April 27, 2015<br>
For Immediate Release<br>
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Contact: Jennifer Dunnam, Chair<br>
Braille Authority of North America<br>
612-767-5658<br>
<a href="mailto:chair@brailleauthority.org">chair@brailleauthority.org</a>
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<div align="center"><b>BANA to Meet in Boston; Welcomes Perkins as New
Member<br>
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The Braille Authority of North America (BANA), which meets face-to-face
semiannually, will hold its 2015 spring meeting May 7–9 in Boston, MA.
This meeting will be hosted by National Braille Press (NBP), a BANA
member organization. Meetings will take place in the Boston Symphony
Orchestra building at 301 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA 02115. <br>
Items on the Board’s agenda include updates of BANA’s numerous ongoing
projects and the implementation of Unified English Braille (UEB). The
Board will review formal reports from all of BANA's technical committees
such as music, math, and tactile graphics, and its general committees and
task forces, such as the UEB Transition Task Force and the BANA
Publications Committee. BANA will take action on recommendations when
appropriate. <br>
BANA officers for 2015 are Chair Jennifer Dunnam, representing the
National Federation of the Blind; Vice Chair Mary Nelle McLennan, from
the American Printing House for the Blind; Secretary Ruth Rozen,
representing the Hadley School for the Blind; and Treasurer Jackie
Sheridan, from National Braille Press. <br>
The Perkins School for the Blind joined BANA as a full member in January
2015. Kim Charlson will serve as the Perkins representative to the BANA
Board.<br>
As always, interested parties are invited to observe the BANA Board
meetings. If you are interested in observing the BANA meeting, please
contact BANA Chair Jennifer Dunnam at 612-767-5658 or by email at
<a href="mailto:chair@brailleauthority.org">chair@brailleauthority.org</a>
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NOTE: This press release is available in HTML on the BANA website at
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The Board of BANA consists of appointed representatives from eighteen
member organizations of braille producers, transcribers, teachers, and
consumers.<br>
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. <br>
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<b> </b>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<b> </b>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.<br>
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<x-tab> </x-tab>David
Andrews and long white cane Harry.<br>
E-Mail: dandrews@visi.com or david.andrews@nfbnet.org<br>
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