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Unified English Braille: A Place to Start Webinar

• UEB Ain't Hard to Do by Mark Brady a NYC Teacher of the Visually

Impaired

• The lyrics and sound file can be found on the Paths to Literacy

website

• http://www.pathstoliteracy.org/resources/farewell-song-9-ebae-

contractions

Unified English Braille A Place to Start

April 2016 Donna Mayberry, M.Ed., NCUEB LAUREL REGIONAL PROGRAM, Lynchburg, VA mayberrydm@lcsedu.net

Webinar Content:

• Overview of UEB
• Unified English Braille Reference Sheets
• Unified English Braille Student Progress Checklists
• Converting Bookshare files into UEB
• Teacher Relicensure: Option 8
• NCUEB
• Questions

Overview of UEB

The Rules of Unified English Braille Second Edition 2013 Available as a PDF or BRF http://www.iceb.org/ueb.html

Your new best Friend!!!

What are teacher’s using to learn UEB?

• Hadley School for the Blind
• VDBVI Saturday Seminars
• Update to UEB Self Directed Course- Available in Word, PDF, BRF, DXB

http://www.cnib.ca/en/living/braille/Pages/Transcribers-UEB-Course.aspx

• The new textbook that is being used in the VI Consortium is:

Ashcroft's Programmed Instruction: Unified English Braille by M. Cay Holbrook 2014

Contractions

• 'c o'clock (shortform)

4 dd (groupsign between letters) 6 to (wordsign unspaced from following word) 96 into (wordsign unspaced from following word) 0 by (wordsign unspaced from following word) # ble (groupsign following other letters)

• com (groupsign at beginning of word)

,n ation (groupsign following other letters) ,y ally (groupsign following other letters)

Braille Not Used in Unified English Braille

Braille Not Used in Unified English Braille- 2

Punctuation 7 opening and closing parentheses (round brackets) 7' closing square bracket 0' closing single quotation mark (inverted commas) ''' ellipsis

• - dash (short dash)
• --- double dash (long dash)

,7 opening square bracket

Braille Not Used in Unified English Braille- 3

Composition signs (indicators) 1 non-Latin (non-Roman) letter indicator @ accent sign (nonspecific) @ print symbol indicator . italic sign (for a word) .. double italic sign (for a passage)

Braille Not Used in Unified English Braille- 4

General symbols l pound sign (pound sterling) p> paragraph sign s' section sign 4 dollar sign 99 asterisk

• end of foot
• - caesura

^ short or unstressed syllable _ long or stressed syllable

Braille Alphabet a a k k u u b b l l v v c c m m w w d d n n x x e e

• y

y f f p p z z g g q q h h r r i i s s j j t t

Alphabet Whole Words a a k knowledge u us b but l like v very c can m more w will d do n not x it e every

• o

y you f from p people z as g go q quite h have r rather i i s so j just t that

Stand Alone Rule: use these contractions when unaccompanied by additional letters or symbols, except a hyphen or a dash. Can use near common punctuation ( { “ . ? ’ typeform & capital indicatior. Can use followed by an apostrophe plus d, ll, re, s, t, ve

1 comma 8 "open outer quote 4 period closing outer quote" 8 ?question mark ,8 'open inner quote 6 !exclamation ,0 closing inner quote' ' 'apostrophe 444 elipse… 3 colon: 2 semicolon; ,- dash_ ",- long dash__ .- blank line

• hyphen-mark

_/ forward slash/ _* back slash\

Punctuation

UEB has simplified braille in that one symbol’s use is consistent throughout the braille code. Example, wherever you find a period, it will always be dots 2 5 6; whether it be in a sentence, decimal, ellipse, or web address

Grouping Punctuation

"< (open parentheses close) "> .< [open square bracket close] .> _< {open curly bracket close} _> @< <open angle bracket close> @>

Strong Contractions, Wordsigns and Groupsigns

Strong Contractions Strong Groupsigns & and < gh = for $ ed (

• f

} er ! the {

• w

) with > ar + ing Strong Wordsigns * child * ch % shall % sh ? this ? th : which : wh \

• ut

\

• u

/ still / st

General Rules You CAN now use contractions when they bridge a prefix and root word or suffix mi/ake mistake pr$ate

predate

r]\te reroute ]ase

erase

You generally CANNOT use a contraction that bridges a compound word Foghorn

foghorn

Rawhide

rawhide

"m mother "h here "f father "o one "r right "q question "t time "u under "l lord "w work "s some "e ever "d day "p part "* character "n name "\

• ught

"k know "! there "y young "? through ": where

Initial Letter Dot 5 Contractions

Initial Letter Dot 4 5 & 4 5 6 Contractions

Dots 4 5 Dots 4 5 6 ^w word _w world ^! these _! their ^u upon _c cannot ^? those _h had ^: whose _m many _s spirit

Final Letter Groupsigns

.e ance ;e ence .n sion ;n tion .s less ;s ness .t ount ;t ment .d ound ;l ful ;g ong ;y ity

Braille Indicators

SINGLE LETTER WORD PASSAGE TERMINATOR CAPITAL , ,, ,,, ,' GRADE 1 ; ;; ;;; ;' ITALIC .2 .1 .7 .' BOLD ^2 ^1 ^7 ^' UNDERLINE _2 _1 _7 _' SCRIPT @2 @1 @7 @'

Use passage indicator and terminator when typeforming 3 or more words

THE FORCE AWAKENS LUKE SKYWALKER HAS VANISHED. IN HIS ABSENCE, THE SINISTER FIRST ORDER HAS RISEN FROM THE ASHES... ,,,! =ce awak5s,' ,,,luke skywalk] has vani%$4 9 8 abs;e1 ! s9i/] f/ ord] has ris5 f ! a%es444,'

Capital Passage indicator continues past punctuation until terminator is used Note that no capital indicator is used at the beginning of the next sentence because you are in all caps mode already The capital terminator is used after the last character in the passage

Nesting General Rule: close any indicators used in the reverse order of opening (DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR SCIENCE PROJECT TOMORROW!) "<^7,,,don't =get to br+ yr sci;e project tm6,'^'">

1st Open parenthesis indicator 2nd Bold passage indicator 3rd Capital passage indicator 1st Capital passage terminator 2nd Bold passage terminator 3rd Close parenthesis indicator

Lower Groupsigns and Lower Wordsigns

Lower Groupsigns Lower wordsigns 1 ea 2 be 2 bb 5 enough 3 cc 7 were 6 ff 8 his 7 gg 9 in 2 be was 3 con 4 dis 5 en 9 in

Only use if represent 1st syllable

• f word
• Use near capital
• Don’t use at the

end of a sentence near punctuation Sandwich contraction Must be preceeded and followed by a letter.

Unified English Braille Math

Special Symbols

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Special Symbols-3

UEB Student Progress Checksheets

• You have my permission to use

any of the reference materials I have created with students, parents, guardians, and teachers.

• You may make copies.
• You may share these materials

with other TVI’s.

Converting Bookshare Files into UEB

Bookshare will soon be offering the option of UEB braille (new) or Literary Braille (old) downloads on their website. Until then, you may need to know how to convert files to the new UEB code using your braille translating software.

• Go to Bookshare.org and login
• Download the book your are looking for in the Daisy (WITHOUT PICTURES)

format  Click on ‘Available’

• If you are using Windows 7 or higher the file is downloading in the

lower left side of your screen. Click the file when it is finished downloading.

• A new window pops up with the

files listed, click ‘Extract All Files’

• Once you extract files a window should pop up with a listing of

all the files that were extracted

• Change your view to "Details" so you can see what each file type is.
• Click on the XML Document file and the book will open up

 Copy and paste the Document either in Word for Tiger Braille Translating software or copy and paste the document directly into Duxbury Braille Translating Software. Tiger Tip: Make sure you have selected UEB in the formatter setting before you paste the document in (You may need a software update to install the UEB code) Duxbury Tip: In the opening menus, make sure your have selected ‘print’ and either UEB basic or Bana UEB before pasting the document into Duxbury.

Teacher Relicensure: Option 8

• You can earn up to 180 relicensure points learning Unified English

Braille.

• 1 point per hour
• Get permission
• Keep a Log

National Certification in Unified English Braille

• Certification for Teacher’s of the Visually Impaired and others

working with Visually Impaired Students (Available for all TVIs)

• 3 Part Exam (Braille Writing, Braille Proofreading, Multiple Choice)
• You can use The Rules of Unified English Braille 2013 for 2

sections of the exam.

• Testing sites available in VA
• For more information go to:

http://www.nbpcb.org/ncueb/

The Virginia Department of Education does NOT require you to have National Certification in braille.

SAVE THE DATE

• Braille Literacy Institute 2016

August 8 & 9 More information coming soon

QUESTIONS?

This training was brought to you by:

Outreach Services, VSDB

Debbie Pfeiffer, Ed.D, CED Director Debbie.Pfeiffer@VSDB.K12.VA.US (540) 414-5249

Special thanks to:

• Donna Mayberry for presenting this webinar and sharing her resources.
• The NCUEB team, Carolyn Carver, TVI from VSDB, & Lori Floyd, TVI from Henry

County for proofreading all of the reference sheets;

• The Virginia Department of Education, provider of the grant that funds

Outreach Services, VSDB;

• Cavalier Reporting for captioning services for this webinar and for providing

technical assistance for those using CART today; and

• All of YOU, for the services you provide daily for students and their families!

References used to create this presentation:

• Simpson, Christine. (2013) The Rules of Unified English Braille,

Second Edition 2013. SanFrancisco, CA: International Council on English Braille.

• Holbrook, M.K. (2015) Ashcroft’s Programmed Instruction: Unified

English Braille. Germantown, TN: SCALARS Publishing.

• National Blindness Certification Board. (2016) National

Certification in Unified English Braille. Retrieved from: http://www.nbpcb.org/ncueb/

This training was brought to you by:

Outreach Services, VSDB

Debbie Pfeiffer, Ed.D, CED Director Debbie.Pfeiffer@VSDB.K12.VA.US (540) 414-5249

Special thanks to:

• Donna Mayberry, M.Ed., NCUEB, for her wonderful presentation today;
• The Virginia Department of Education, provider of the grant that funds

Outreach Services, VSDB;

• Cavalier Reporting for captioning services for this webinar and for providing

technical assistance for those using CART today;

• Our terrific interpreters; and
• All of YOU, for the services you provide daily for students and their families!