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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.
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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 .
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 ]
One of the primary challenges faced by the JBI was the lack of a uniform Hebrew Braille. JBI assembled an international panel to address the problem, and the first iteration of the International Hebrew Braille Code was produced in 1936, undergoing further refinements until its completion in 1944. [4]
The current location in the Flatiron District opened in 1991, [1] and may be the first US library to have braille and other accessible materials available to the public. The library was established as the New York Free Circulating Library for the Blind by Richard Randall Ferry in 1895 and it expanded in its remit through legislation and ...
Most notable: the Book Angel Program which provides four free braille books a year to children with vision loss under 21 years of age. The Rose Project is another program that provides free braille transcriptions of World Book Encyclopedia articles to blind and visually impaired students. As well as the aforementioned programs Seedlings has a ...
From Shelter to Self-Reliance: A History of the Illinois Braille and Sight Saving School. Illinois Braille and Sight Saving School. OCLC 2800024. Brief history of the Illinois institution for the education of the blind : located at Jacksonville, Ill., 1849–1893. Board of World's Fair Commissioners. 1893. Hickey, Donald; Seymour, Lyle (1982).