[rehab] Fwd: [BANA-Announce] BANA to Hold 2016 Spring Meeting in Baltimore Preceding ICEB General Assembly

[David Andrews]

>BANA logo
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>Press Release
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>May 2016
>For Immediate Release
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>Contact: Jennifer Dunnam, Chair
>Braille Authority of North America
>612-767-5658
>chair at brailleauthority.org
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>BANA to Hold 2016 Spring Meeting in Baltimore, MD, May 19–21
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>The Braille Authority of North America (BANA), 
>which meets face-to-face semiannually, will hold 
>its 2016 spring meeting May 19-21 in Baltimore, 
>MD. This meeting will be hosted by the Council 
>of Schools and Services for the Blind (COSB), 
>which is a member organization of BANA. The BANA 
>meeting will immediately precede the Sixth 
>General Assembly of the International Council on 
>English Braille (ICEB) to be held May 21–26 at 
>the headquarters of the National Federation of 
>the Blind (NFB) in Baltimore. BANA Meetings will 
>take place at the Maryland School for the Blind, 
>located at 3501 Taylor Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21236.
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>Items on the BANA Board’s agenda include updates 
>of BANA’s numerous ongoing projects. The Board 
>will review formal reports from all of BANA’s 
>technical committees such as braille formats, 
>music, math, foreign language, and tactile 
>graphics and will take action on recommendations when appropriate.
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>As always, interested parties are invited to 
>observe 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 
><mailto:chair at brailleauthority.org>chair at brailleauthority.org.
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>On the evening of May 21, the International 
>Council on English Braille (ICEB), which meets 
>every four years, will begin its Sixth General 
>Assembly. ICEB, of which BANA is a member, 
>includes eight countries that use Unified 
>English Braille (UEB) as their primary means of 
>reading and writing braille. Approximately 50 
>delegates representing the eight member 
>countries of ICEB­Australia, Canada, Ireland, 
>New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, the United 
>Kingdom, and the United States­will convene at 
>the NFB headquarters located at 200 East Wells 
>Street at Jernigan Place, Baltimore, MD 21230. 
>Papers on a variety of topics and demonstrations 
>of new braille technologies will be presented at 
>this meeting, which extends through May 26.
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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 seventeen member 
>organizations of braille producers, transcribers, teachers, and consumers.
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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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>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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         David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
E-Mail:  dandrews at visi.com or david.andrews at nfbnet.org
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