News and Updates
Now Accepting Silent Auction Items!
For those of you who are regulars at the National Braille Association Professional Development Conferences, you know that each Spring we have a Silent Auction. Now that we’ve made the changeover to having only a Fall conference, the 2016 Silent Auction will be taking place in St. Louis. The Silent Auction provides an opportunity for…
Read MoreSeeking Lifetime Achievement Award Nominees
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 2016,…
Read MoreAnnouncing the 2016 NBA Fall Professional Development Conference
We’ve been getting some calls and emails to the office asking for more information about the 2016 Fall Professional Development Conference. Previous to now, we’ve only been able to share the dates and location of the conference, but we’re pleased to announce that registration is now ready to go! We typically don’t have registration for the…
Read MoreNominations for the NBA Board of Directors
For over 70 years, the National Braille Association has been guided by a volunteer Board of Directors. Members of the NBA Board join an esteemed list of those who’ve made a difference in how we serve braille transcribers and ultimately braille readers. As we prepare for our 2016 Fall Professional Development Conference in St. Louis,…
Read MoreNBA’s Newest Publication
While we continue to prep for the 2016 Fall Professional Development Conference this coming October, we’ve been reviewing previous workshop materials to make them available to you. This month, we’re releasing a publication that has been presented at a few previous conferences and written by Jan Carroll. As both a Past President of NBA and…
Read MoreAnnouncing New NBA Publications!
With the transition to Unified English Braille that took place earlier this year, we strongly feel that relaying instruction about how to produce consistently high quality accessible materials in UEB is imperative to promoting braille literacy. We are pleased to announce that we’ve recently made a number of new publications available exclusively in the online National…
Read MoreHow To Login
One of the things that is exciting about our new website is the fact that you will no longer have multiple logins to interact with our site. Remember how you had one for Ask An Expert and for conference registration and for the store?? Now, you’ll only need one! Here’s how to get your login…
Read MoreNew Year. New Forum.
We’ve been talking now for a while about the upcoming unveiling of our entirely brand-new, redesigned website and the time has finally come for you to begin using it with us! We’ve been working tirelessly for most of 2015 with Erion Media of Rochester, New York to create a smooth user experience. Creating a website…
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