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Nominate Someone for the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award

By Chris Clemens | May 11, 2017
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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 2017, the selected recipient will receive his or her award at our 2017 Professional Development Conference in Orlando, Florida. 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…

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BULLETIN: No. 53, Vol. 1 – Spring 2017

By Chris Clemens | May 5, 2017
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The Spring 2017 NBA Bulletin (Vol. 53, No. 1) is now available for current NBA Members to download right from the Member’s Section of our website. Once you’re logged in, navigate to the Member’s Section using the link at the very top of your screen. Both PDF and BRF files are available to download right now! For those of you who receive them, the braille, print and disc editions of the Bulletin are all in the mail and should arrive at your doorsteps within coming weeks. Remember: even if you receive any hardcopy form of the Bulletin, as a current member, you…

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Upcoming Webinars

By Chris Clemens | April 25, 2017
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We are proud to be continuing our educational offerings with free webinars open to all. Our monthly rotating topic for April will be Foreign Language Braille, and the First Friday in May will be a continuation of Braille Formats. For a more detailed description of the two upcoming webinars and how to attend, please see the below information on each. Multi-line Brackets in Foreign Text Presenter: Carol Greer Friday, April 28, 2017 at 3:00 pm EST Multi-line brackets are used to show a correlation between a word or phrase and a group of related words. While not unique to foreign…

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Call to Vendors and Businesses

By Chris Clemens | April 13, 2017
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Now that registration for the 2017 Professional Development Conference in Orlando is underway, it is time for us to extend the invitation to those wishing to reach our audience as a business. At each conference, vendors who have a product or service that would be of interest to braille transcribers and teachers of the visually impaired have a few opportunities to showcase themselves. Registration for vendors is now available for those wishing to have a table in our Exhibit Hall, sponsor a portion of the conference, or advertise in our conference program. If you are a business representative wanting to…

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Announcing: Upcoming Webinars

By Chris Clemens | March 24, 2017
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We’ve received a lot of positive feedback about the webinars we’ve done so far, and that’s inspired us to develop additional programs at a quicker pace than initially expected. We are pleased to announce, that beginning in April, we will be offering two webinars a month. One webinar will always focus on Braille Formats (coined Formats Friday), and the other will be a rotating topic.  The Formats Friday webinars will take place on the first Friday of every month at 12:00 p.m Central Time.  The time of the other webinars will vary by month. As always, these free, 15-minute webinars are open to anyone who…

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Webinars Archive

By Chris Clemens | March 20, 2017
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As you may have already noticed, we’ve begun to explore new ways to deliver educational content to braille transcribers and teachers of the visually impaired. Even though we’d love to have all of you at our fall conference, we realize the costs of travel often prevent transcribers who need training to be able to make it for three days of workshop sessions. In response, we’ve been hosting free, short webinars that are open to anyone with an internet connection. If you’ve missed out on the announcements, be sure you’re subscribed to receive updates from our blog so you know when…

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Join Us in Orlando, Florida!

By Chris Clemens | March 6, 2017
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We are very excited to officially invite you to our 2017 Professional Development Conference! Typically, we have registration for our conferences open about four-to-five months in advance. We know many of you working in school districts have to submit budgets for the fall during your spring semester. So, this year, we worked extra hard to be able to allow registration to begin earlier than ever! As you may already know, this year’s conference will take place in Orlando, Florida, and our host hotel will be the Embassy Suites Lake Buena Vista South. Our room block includes nightly accommodations for $149.00. Reservations for…

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February Webinar: Braille Order

By Chris Clemens | February 17, 2017
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If you haven’t had an opportunity to jump in on one of our free monthly webinars, this month’s topic should be a great time to start! For February, we’ll be featuring a new topic, new day of the week, and a new presenter. And, we’re excited about it! Join us at no cost on Tuesday, February 28th as the Chair of our Unified English Braille Committee, Julie Sumwalt, leads us through a brief training. Braille order is a way to arrange the 63 possible dot configurations into a table that shows their relationship to one another. The discussion will be about this relationship…

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Bulletin: Vol. 52, No. 4 – Winter 2016-17

By Chris Clemens | February 15, 2017
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The Winter 2016-17 NBA Bulletin (Vol. 52, No. 4) is now officially available for current NBA Members to download right from the Member’s Section of our website. Once you’re logged in, navigate to the Member’s Section using the link at the very top of your screen. Both PDF and BRF files are available to download right now! For those of you who receive them, the braille, print and disc editions of the Bulletin are all in the mail and should arrive at your doorsteps within coming weeks. Remember: even if you receive any hardcopy form of the Bulletin, as a current member,…

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Nominations for the NBA Board of Directors

By David Shaffer | February 10, 2017
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For over 70 years, the National Braille Association has been guided by a volunteer Board of Directors. It is now time to nominate individuals to fill the upcoming board vacancies that will be available in the Fall of 2017. Those selected to serve in the officer and director positions listed below will be installed at NBA’s Professional Development Conference in October, in Orlando, Florida. We encourage all members of NBA to become involved in this nominating process by submitting the names of individuals for director positions and by selecting current directors to serve in officer positions. NBA is seeking nominations for the…

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