[stylist] National Federation of the Blind and Onkyo Corporation Promote Braille Literacy

Tue Feb 3 20:35:47 UTC 2009

All right, John, smile) now you've got me curious. (lol)
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Subject: Re: [stylist] National Federation of the Blind and Onkyo
Corporation Promote Braille Literacy
Date: 02/03/09 12:33

> 
> Sighs, sighs, sighs: No matter how well I might write about how I learned
> Braille, it'd probably be too lewd to win this prim and proper contest. 
So
> those of you who didn't learn Braille for the wrong reasons I did, you're
> lucky!  Go for it!
> 
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> Subject: [stylist] National Federation of the Blind and Onkyo Corporation
> Promote Braille Literacy
> 
> 
> 
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> 
> 
> 
> CONTACT:
> 
> Christopher S. Danielsen
> 
> Director of Public Relations
> 
> National Federation of the Blind
> 
> (410) 659-9314, extension 2330
> 
> (410) 262-1281 (Cell)
> 
> <mailto:cdanielsen at nfb.org>cdanielsen at nfb.org
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> 
> National Federation of the Blind and
> Onkyo Corporation Promote Braille Literacy
> 
> 
> 
> Braille Essay Contest will Encourage Braille Usage Among the Blind
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> 
> Baltimore, Maryland (February 3, 2009): The 
> National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the 
> oldest and largest organization of blind people 
> in the United States, will administer the Onkyo 
> Braille Literacy Essay Contest in the U.S. on 
> behalf of the North American-Caribbean Region of 
> the World Blind Union.  The essay contest, 
> sponsored by Onkyo Corporation, a Japanese 
> consumer electronics manufacturer, and the 
> Braille Mainichi, part of the Mainichi Newspaper 
> Company in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = 
> "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" 
> />Japan, was created to promote Braille literacy 
> and to encourage the sharing of social and 
> cultural information among blind and visually 
> impaired persons.  Blind or visually impaired 
> persons in the United States or Canada are eligible to apply.
> 
> 
> 
>   The essays must be written in Braille and must 
> pertain either to how the individual gains 
> knowledge or independence through Braille or to 
> an individual concept about world peace from the 
> viewpoint of persons with disabilities.  There 
> will be two groups of competitors: a junior 
> category for persons up to age twenty-five and a 
> senior category for persons over age 
> twenty-six.  Four cash prizes will be awarded at the end of the contest.
> 
> 
> 
> Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National 
> Federation of the Blind, said: “We are very 
> pleased to be a part of this important contest. 
> There can be no doubt that the ability to read 
> and write Braille competently and efficiently is 
> the key to education, employment, and success for 
> the blind.  Despite the undisputed value of 
> Braille, however, only about 10 percent of blind 
> children in the United States are learning 
> it.  This contest will not only be a fun way for 
> blind and visually-impaired persons to 
> demonstrate the impact Braille has had on their 
> lives but will also raise awareness of the 
> importance of Braille literacy in every day applications.”
> 
> 
> 
> Administering the Onkyo Braille Literacy Essay 
> Contest in the United States is a facet of the 
> National Federation of the Blind’s “Braille 
> Readers are Leaders” campaign, a national 
> initiative to promote the importance of reading 
> and writing Braille for blind children and 
> adults.  The Braille Readers are Leaders campaign 
> kicked off in July of 2008 with the unveiling of 
> the design of a commemorative coin to be minted 
> in 2009 in recognition of the two-hundredth 
> anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille 
> (1809–1852), the inventor of the reading and 
> writing code for the blind that bears his name.
> 
> 
> 
> The contest begins on February 1, 2009, and ends 
> on April 30, 2009.  All entries must be received by April 30.
> 
> 
> 
> For more information about the Onkyo Braille 
> Literacy Essay Contest, including application 
> information, please contact Trisha Tatam by phone 
> at (410) 659-9314, ext. 2510 or by e-mail at 
> <mailto:ttatam at nfb.org>ttatam at nfb.org. For more 
> about the National Federation of the Blind’s 
> Braille Readers are Leaders campaign, please 
> visit <http://www.braille.org/>www.braille.org.
> 
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