Institute on Blindness at Louisiana Tech
As teachers of blind students prepare themselves and their students for the January 2016 transition to Unified English Braille (UEB), one area of the tactile code remains unaddressed. The Braille Authority of North America (BANA) voted that UEB would be … Read More »
At Louisiana Tech, our master’s degree programs prepare teachers to work with blind and low-vision students. Because our research has shown a strong correlation between employment and braille literacy among the blind, we want our graduates to be fluent in … Read More »
At T-Base Communications, we are leaders in tactile graphics at some of the largest educational institutions in the world, spanning across Canada and the U.S. We are very fortunate to have the Chair of the BANA (Braille Authority of North … Read More »
The current braille code is tough for elementary students, for there is no way for a transcriber to differentiate between bold, underlined, italicized and colored text. Writing words that have numbers and letters is cumbersome. There’s a need to frequently … Read More »