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The National Braille Association is thankful for the countless men and women who have dedicated their lives to ensuring that individuals who are blind receive high quality braille. In 2011, we began to honor these individuals by presenting them with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Each year, one individual is selected to receive the NBA Lifetime Achievement Award. For 2021, the selected recipient will receive the award at our 2021 Professional Development Conference in San Antonio, Texas. The awardee is selected by the NBA Board of Directors, after a careful review of submitted nominations. If you would like to nominate someone for this year’s award, we encourage you […]
With the COVID-19 pandemic shattering our plans for an in-person conference in 2020, we scrambled to find ways to deliver the same educational content. As you probably already know, and likely even attended, we produced a 5-day virtual conference in November 2020 with workshops each day. All those sessions were recorded and we knew that we wanted to do something with those recordings, but weren’t quite sure what. Since doing a virtual conference was new to us, we really wanted to focus on that first. Once the conference ended and we took a moment to catch our breath, we jumped […]
June is planning to a busy month for webinars! We’ll be hosting six of our free, shorter-length webinars and one of our longer, extended-length webinars. Remember that anyone with an internet connection anywhere in the world can join our free webinars at no cost and without even registering in advance. Just simply click the link to the join underneath the description in the webinar you want to attend. We record all the webinars and make them available in the member section of our website. If you can’t attend live, log in with your member account the day following the webinar […]
If you ever wanted to do a deep dive into the world of how lists and tables are transcribed according to the Principles and Print to Braille Transcription, 2016 then now is the time! After receiving so much positive feedback following the presentation of the topic during the spring 2021 conference produced by the Visual Aid Volunteers of Volunteer, we thought that we’d revisit the topic for those wanting to review it again, or for those who couldn’t make that conference. Join us on Wednesday, June 30th at 2:00p ET as Cindi Laurent presents Lists and More! Presenter: Cindi Laurent, Member, […]
For the month of May, we’ll be offering six different free webinars on various topics. Remember that anyone with an internet connection anywhere in the world can join our free webinars at no cost and without even registering in advance. Just simply click the link to the join underneath the description in the webinar you want to attend. We record all the webinars and make them available in the member section of our website. If you can’t attend live, log in with your member account the day following the webinar and watch the recording as many times as you want! […]
The Spring 2021 BULLETIN: Vol. 57, No. 1 is now available for current NBA Members to download right from our website! Once you’re logged in, navigate to the “My Account” using the link at the very top of your screen. Then you’ll find a link to the Bulletin page. Both PDF and BRF files are available to download right now! For those who receive the braille, print, and disc editions of the Bulletin, you should be receiving those within the next month. Remember: even if you receive any hardcopy form of the Bulletin, as a current member, you still have […]
The National Braille Association is proud to announce the release of our newest publication from the Unified English Braille Literary Committee titled Grade 1 and Capital Indicators. In 40-pages, this publication takes readers through the process of learning more about grade 1 indicators and capital indicators, whether it be a simple or complex application. Since there is often more than one acceptable option, it can be tough to know just exactly how to apply rules in a given context. Grade 1 and Capital Indicators was written to explore possible solutions in many different types of applications. The material in this […]
At the end of last year, BANA released their new Guidelines for the Transcription of Early Educational Materials from Print to Braille. With new guidelines in place, it became imperative to not only learn the new guidelines, but also how to properly apply them to your transcription work. As we received more and more questions regarding the new guidelines, we planned a live training to walk users through the document. That training took place at the end of March 2021 and was our most attended webinar yet! Presented by Dan Gergen, Chair of the NBA Unified English Braille Literary Committee […]
For the month of April, we’ll be offering five different free webinars on various topics. Remember that anyone with an internet connection anywhere in the world can join our free webinars at no cost and without even registering in advance. Just simply click the link to the join underneath the description in the webinar you want to attend. We record all the webinars and make them available in the member section of our website. If you can’t attend live, log in with your member account the day following the webinar and watch the recording as many times as you want! […]
The National Braille Association (NBA) is excited to announce the launch of its Prison Braille Program. The birth of this idea came from an acknowledgement that NBA’s traditional way of providing services is not accessible to many of the people who are preparing braille from behind the walls of a correctional institution. The program’s goal is to address that shortcoming by delivering what NBA has to offer in an alternative and accessible way. Through their participation on NBA’s Prison Braille Committee, experts from the industry discussed and developed the program’s structure. Both the experts and NBA believe that the methods […]