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Unified English BrailleA 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, DXBhttp://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 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

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 ub b l l v vc c m m w wd d n n x xe e o o y yf f p p z zg 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 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 0 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 GroupsignsStrong Contractions Strong Groupsigns& and < gh= for $ ed( of } er! the { ow) with > ar

+ ingStrong Wordsigns* child * ch% shall % sh? this ? th: which : wh\ out \ ou/ 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 "\ ought

"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 wordsigns1 ea 2 be 2 bb 5 enough 3 cc 7 were 6 ff 8 his 7 gg 9 in 2 be 0 was 3 con 4 dis 5 en9 in

Only use if

represent

1st syllable

of 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

Special Symbols-2

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 thefiles 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 2016August 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!