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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

Braille Not Used in Unified English Braille Contractions o'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- 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 k u k a u b l v b l v c m w c m w d n x d n x e o y e o y f p z f p z g q g q h r h r i s i s j t j t

Alphabet Whole Words a k knowledge u a us b l like v but very c m more w can will d n not x it do e o o y every you f p people z from as g q quite go Stand Alone Rule : use these contractions when unaccompanied by h r rather have additional letters or symbols, except i s so a hyphen or a dash. Can use near i common punctuation ( { “ . ? ’ j t that just typeform & capital indicatior. Can use followed by an apostrophe plus d, ll, re, s, t, ve

UEB has simplified braille in that one symbol’s use is consistent throughout Punctuation 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 1 comma 8 "open outer quote 4 0 period closing outer quote" 8 ,8 'open inner quote ?question mark 6 ,0 closing inner quote' !exclamation 444 elipse … ' 'apostrophe 3 2 colon: semicolon; ,- dash_ ",- long dash__ .- - blank line hyphen-mark _/ forward slash/ _* back slash\

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

General Rules You CAN now use Strong Contractions, Wordsigns and Groupsigns contractions when Strong Contractions Strong Groupsigns they bridge a & < prefix and root and gh word or suffix = $ for ed mi/ake mistake ( } of er pr$ate predate ! { the ow r]\te reroute ) > with ar ]ase erase + ing You generally Strong Wordsigns CANNOT use a * * child ch contraction that % % shall sh bridges a ? ? this th compound word : : which wh Foghorn foghorn \ \ out ou Rawhide / / st still rawhide

Initial Letter Dot 5 Contractions "m "h mother here "f "o one father "r "q question right "t "u under time "l "w work lord "s "e ever some "d day "p "* character part "n "\ name ought "k "! there know "y "? young through ": where

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

Use passage indicator and Braille Indicators terminator when typeforming 3 or more words SINGLE LETTER WORD PASSAGE TERMINATOR , ,, ,,, ,' CAPITAL ; ;; ;;; ;' GRADE 1 .2 .1 .7 .' ITALIC ^2 ^1 ^7 ^' BOLD _2 _1 _7 _' UNDERLINE @2 @1 @7 @' SCRIPT

THE FORCE AWAKENS LUKE SKYWALKER HAS VANISHED. IN HIS ABSENCE, THE SINISTER FIRST ORDER HAS RISEN FROM THE ASHES... Note that no capital Capital Passage indicator indicator is used at the continues past punctuation ,,,! =ce awak5s,' beginning of the next until terminator is used sentence because you are in all caps mode already ,,,luke skywalk] has vani%$4 9 8 abs;e1 ! s9i/] f/ ord] has ris5 f ! a%es444,' 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! ) 1 st Open parenthesis indicator 2 nd Bold passage indicator 3 rd Capital passage indicator "<^7,,,don't =get to br+ yr sci;e project tm6,'^'"> 1st Capital passage terminator 2 nd Bold passage terminator 3 rd Close parenthesis indicator

Lower Groupsigns and Lower Wordsigns Lower Groupsigns Lower wordsigns 1 2 be ea Sandwich • Use near capital contraction 2 5 bb enough • Don’t use at the Must be end of a sentence 3 7 cc were preceeded near punctuation and 6 8 ff his followed by a letter. 7 9 gg in 2 0 be was Only use if represent 3 con 1 st syllable 4 dis of word 5 en 9 in

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

SAVE THE DATE • Braille Literacy Institute 2016 August 8 & 9 More information coming soon

QUESTIONS?