Institute on Blindness at Louisiana Tech
We invite you to register now for the Third Biennial Louisiana Teacher Training Conference on Blindness and Low Vision, which will be held Sep. 25-26 at the Louisiana Center for the Blind in Ruston. This regionally-focused, professional development conference will … Read More »
Jennifer Kennedy, MA, NOMCT is blind and works as a cane travel instructor for the Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired of Utah. She talked with us about her recent trip with her husband, Daniel Ashman, to … Read More »
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 »
Sponsored by the National Rehabilitation Association, the National Blindness Professional Certification Board, and us—the Institute on Blindness at Louisiana Tech University—professionals in the field of educating blind students and adults from around the country will gather to discuss the latest … Read More »
A few weeks ago, we hosted another workshop about the changeover from Literary Braille to Unified English Braille (UEB) here in Ruston. Whereas so much of the conversation about the coming changeover to UEB here in the U.S. is characterized … Read More »
Louisiana Tech University, headquartered in north-central Louisiana, will offer courses for those who want to teach blind students and begin a master’s degree in teaching. Summer 2014 (1st summer session) (6/4/14 – 7/9/14) EDCI 584/Orientation & Mobility Teachers of Blind … Read More »
As we prepare to head out for the holidays, we’re celebrating the achievements that our students, instructors, and you—our readers—have made for the education of blind students and adults this year. We know that blind students—regardless of how much residual … Read More »
Take a listen to this interview with Casey Robertson for the highlights from the 2013 Getting in Touch with Literacy conference. Having trouble accessing the embedded player above? Click here.
Last week, we posted an overview about the U.S. transition to UEB, unified English Braille. While the Braille Authority of North America has posted a useful guide to the updated symbols and rules, I’ve been using UEB for nearly a … 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 »