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The Braille Institute of America (BIA) is a nonprofit organization with headquarters in Los Angeles providing programs, seminars and one-on-one instruction for the visually impaired community in Southern California. Funded almost entirely by private donations, all of the institute's services are provided completely free of charge.
The Braille Authority of North America (BANA) is the standardizing body of English Braille orthography in the United States and Canada. It consists of a number of member organizations, such as the Braille Institute of America , the National Braille Association , and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind .
JBI International was founded as the Jewish Braille Institute of America on April 22, 1931, in the Manhattan borough of New York City by Leopold Dubov, with the assistance of Rabbi Michael Aaronson. [1] [2] [3] JBI was funded in large part by the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, to whom Aaronson appealed on Dubov's behalf for ...
Jun. 24—The Braille Institute announced its 50 finalists for the 2021 Braille Challenge Finals competition, one of which is Owensboro resident and student Carmynn Blakeley. The Braille Challenge ...
About Braille Institute Library. The award-winning Braille Institute Library, provides services to individuals living in Southern California who have a visual or physical impairment, or who have a reading or learning disability that prevents them from being able to read printed material in a normal manner. The library delivers more than one ...
J. Robert Atkinson (November 29, 1887 – February 1, 1964) was the founder of the Universal Braille Press in 1919 in Los Angeles, later known as the Braille Institute of America, and published the first Braille edition of the King James Version of the Bible, among other books. Atkinson became an innovator and advocate for the blind, working to ...
The National Braille Association, Inc. (NBA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in Rochester, New York. The association assists, educates, and certifies transcribers and narrators producing reading materials for the visually impaired , and provides braille materials to persons who are print handicapped at below cost. [ 1 ]
Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired is the largest educator of braille as well as the largest worldwide provider of distance education for people who are blind or visually impaired. Braille literacy has been a priority for Hadley since its founding in 1920, and to this day, braille courses are still the most popular.