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New Product: 2024 Braille Formats Study Guide

By Chris Clemens | November 18, 2024
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This past June the Braille Authority of North America (BANA) published an Errata, an Update, and an Addendum to the Principles of Print To Braille Transcription, 2016. While anticipating the release of those documents our Braille Formats/Textbook Committee set to work on updating our own Study Guide. We’re pleased to announce the newest version of the Study Guide is now available for purchase! The NBA 2024 Braille Formats Study Guide is intended to help users navigate the difficult task of understanding and applying the principles laid out in the guidelines document published by BANA. This publication is intended to be…

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BULLETIN: Vol. 60, No. 3 – Fall 2024

By Chris Clemens | November 4, 2024
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The Fall 2024 BULLETIN: Vol. 60, No. 3 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…

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November 2024 Webinars

By Chris Clemens | October 30, 2024
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Join us this month for these four free webinars! These webinars are entirely free to anyone and don’t require registration. As long as you have an internet connection, you can click the join link below each description a few minutes before start time, and you’re in! These are intended to run short, so the content portion is typically around 15 minutes long, and then there’s a few minutes for any questions. We want you to be able to learn some new tricks without having to take a lot of time out of your busy day! We hope you’ll be able…

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October 2024 Webinars

By Chris Clemens | October 3, 2024
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Join us this month for these three free webinars! These webinars are entirely free to anyone and don’t require registration. As long as you have an internet connection, you can click the join link below each description a few minutes before start time, and you’re in! These are intended to run short, so the content portion is typically around 15 minutes long, and then there’s a few minutes for any questions. We want you to be able to learn some new tricks without having to take a lot of time out of your busy day! We hope you’ll be able…

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September 2024 Webinars

By Chris Clemens | September 3, 2024
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Join us this month for these two free webinars! These webinars are entirely free to anyone and don’t require registration. As long as you have an internet connection, you can click the join link below each description a few minutes before start time, and you’re in! These are intended to run short, so the content portion is typically around 15 minutes long, and then there’s a few minutes for any questions. We want you to be able to learn some new tricks without having to take a lot of time out of your busy day! We hope you’ll be able…

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Introducing NBA’s New Educational Award

By Chris Clemens | August 21, 2024
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The National Braille Association is proud to serve braille transcribers and teachers of the visually impaired with two different educational awards. For years now we’ve been honoring the legacy of Past President Mary Archer with an award that covers the cost of registration for first-time attendees to our conferences. We’re now pleased to announce the addition of a second available award in memory of Margaret “Meg” Wagner who sat on NBA’s Board of Directors from 1979 through 1985. Each of NBA’s educational awards were created with input from surviving family members and the current NBA Board of Directors. Mary Archer…

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August 2024 Webinars

By Chris Clemens | August 6, 2024
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Join us this month for these three free webinars! These webinars are entirely free to anyone and don’t require registration. As long as you have an internet connection, you can click the join link below each description a few minutes before start time, and you’re in! These are intended to run short, so the content portion is typically around 15 minutes long, and then there’s a few minutes for any questions. We want you to be able to learn some new tricks without having to take a lot of time out of your busy day! We hope you’ll be able…

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BULLETIN: Vol. 60, No. 2 – Summer 2024

By Chris Clemens | July 31, 2024
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The Summer 2024 BULLETIN: Vol. 60, No. 2 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…

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July 2024 Webinars

By Chris Clemens | July 3, 2024
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Join us this month for these three free webinars! These webinars are entirely free to anyone and don’t require registration. As long as you have an internet connection, you can click the join link below each description a few minutes before start time, and you’re in! These are intended to run short, so the content portion is typically around 15 minutes long, and then there’s a few minutes for any questions. We want you to be able to learn some new tricks without having to take a lot of time out of your busy day! We hope you’ll be able…

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Nominate Our 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient

By Chris Clemens | July 1, 2024
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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 2024, the selected recipient will receive the award at our 2024 Professional Development Conference in Colorado Springs. 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 to submit…

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