ICEB General Assemblies and Mid-Terms

ICEB General Assemblies and Mid-Terms episodes:

• 05.30.2024

  Day 5 Session 16

  Resolutions Committee report: Discussion and adoption of Eighth General Assembly resolutions Introduction of incoming ICEB President and Executive Committee Closing comments and thank-yous

  
• 05.29.2024

  Day 5 Session 15

  Health and Safety Briefing Paper 11: Dunnam—Writing Braille: Two Centuries of Tools and Techniques, and How We Can Strengthen Them for the Future Paper 12: Horspool—Multi-Line Braille Displays, So What? Considering the practical use and ongoing development of multi-line braille displays from...

  
• 05.29.2024

  President's Dinner

  Master of Ceremonies: Dr. Greg Morgan Guest Speaker: Tom Schnackenberg, OBE

  
• 05.29.2024

  Day 4 Session 14

  UEB at 20: Code Maintenance Committee Discussion, Matthew Horspool (United Kingdom), Clive Lansink (New Zealand)

  
• 05.29.2024

  Day 4 Session 13

  Braille Technology Committee report, James Bowden (United Kingdom) Paper 9: Free and Stilson—An International Effort to Update Braille for a Dynamic and Personalized Future Paper 10: Holloway, Butler, Reinders, Cracknell, and Marriott—Refreshable Tactile Displays, Research to Help Guide Reform to Tactile Graphics...

  
• 05.28.2024

  Day 4 Session 12

  Health and Safety Briefing Nominations Committee second report, Debbie Gillespie (Canada) Presentation 1: Stilson and Free—The Journey of the Monarch, Why Partnerships, Innovation, and a New Braille Standard Were Essential to Creating a Dynamic Tactile Display Presentation 2: Dang and Le Anh—Sao Mai...

  
• 05.28.2024

  Day 3 Session 11

  Midnote Address: Dr. Jonathan Godfrey, ONZM, Palmerston North, New Zealand—Get a job that you love and never work another day in your life Vote of Thanks: James Bowden Paper 7: Richards and Griffiths—Braille Music Our Way: Introducing a new and unique approach...

  
• 05.28.2024

  Day 3 Session 10

  CMC Technical Committee Report – Clive Lansink (New Zealand) World Braille Council, Accessible Books Consortium, and Marrakesh Treaty: Martine Abel-Williamson, QSM, President, World Blind Union ICEB Music Committee Report – Jordie Howell (Australia)

  
• 05.27.2024

  Day 3 Session 9

  Health and Safety Briefing Paper 5: Argote-Perez—BRAILLECOR: Learning Method: A New Approach to Braille Teaching for both Blind and Sighted People, Suitable for any Alphabet and Language Paper 6: Herzberg—Teaching Students in Grades 2-5 How to Access, Interpret, and Create Tactile Line...

  
• 05.27.2024

  Day 2 Session 8

  Paper 3: Richards and Jarvis—Wesseling Awards: Celebrating Braille Music Paper 4: Goulden—Expanding the Frontiers of Literacy, Developing Braille Codes for Languages Other Than English

  
• 05.27.2024

  Day 2 Session 7

  ICEB Code Maintenance Committee Report - Matthew Horspool (United Kingdom) Paper 1: Gentle and Howse—Braille in the 21st Century Paper 2: Bischke and Redford—Unified English Braille (UEB): The Transition to UEB and Its Impact Across the United States

  
• 05.27.2024

  Day 2 Session 6

  ICEB Research Committee Report, Natalie Martiniello (Canada) Membership discussion

  
• 05.26.2024

  Day 2 Session 5

  Health and Safety Briefing In Memoriam: A time for each ICEB member country to briefly speak about key contributors to braille who have died since the Seventh General Assembly in October 2020 ICEB Bylaws Committee Report: Discussion of revised Constitution and the...

  
• 05.26.2024

  Day 1 Session 4

  Country Report South Africa Country Report United Kingdom Country Report United States

  
• 05.26.2024

  Day 1 Session 3

  Country Report Australia Country Report Canada Country Report Ireland Country Report New Zealand

  
• 05.26.2024

  Day 1 Session 2

  Confirmation of the Minutes Secretary for the Eighth General Assembly, Frances Mary D’Andrea (U.S.) Approval of the Agenda Speaking protocol Voting rules President's report, Judith Dixon Report on the 2020 Resolutions, Judith Dixon First report of 2024 Resolutions Committee, Christo de Klerk, (South Africa) Adoption of Minutes...

  
• 05.25.2024

  Day 1 Session 1

  Welcome from the ICEB President, Judith Dixon Health and Safety Briefing New Zealand National Anthem Welcome from The Braille Authority of New Zealand Aotearoa Trust, Maria Stevens, BANZAT Chairperson Introduction of delegates and observers, the roll call Keynote address: Jonathan Mosen, MNZM, Wellington, New Zealand—Safeguarding...

  
• 05.25.2024

  Welcome Function

  Welcome and Opening Reception from Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei and The Braille Authority of New Zealand Aotearoa Trust Opening of the Eighth General Assembly: Andrea Midgen, Chief Executive, Blind Low Vision NZ

  
• 06.10.2022

  Archives of Day 5

  Includes a review of the 2020 resolutions, country reports, a discussion about ICEB archives, looking forward to the eighth General Assembly in 2024, closing comments, thank-yous and farewells.

  
• 06.09.2022

  Archives of Day 4

  Includes reports and discussions from the Braille Technology Committee and the UEB Technical Committee.

  
• 06.08.2022

  Archives of Day 3

  Includes a presentation from Philippa Campsie based on her article, Charles Barbier: A Hidden Story, and discussions about code maintenance.

  
• 06.07.2022

  Archives of Day 2

  Includes the Public Relations Committee Report, discussions about independent efforts to create new braille codes, digitising hard copy braille music, the Music Braille Committee Report and the DAISY Music Braille Project.

  
• 06.06.2022

  Archives of Day 1

  Includes welcomes, Keynote Speech, Introduction of Delegates and Observers, procedural matters, In Memoriam, Treasurer's Report, Bylaws Report and Research Report. For a high quality video version of the guide to Quebec, please follow this link to watch it on Youtube.

  
• 06.04.2022

  Introduction to the Coverage 2022

  A short introduction to the coverage.

  
• 10.23.2020

  Braille on Coins

  Braille Bonus by Pat Farrell, coin collector, Republic of Ireland

  
• 10.23.2020

  Postcards from Scotland and Northern Ireland

  Featuring the unicorn, red heads, the shortest commercial flight, islands, international association football, UFO Capital of the World; Game Of Thrones, Snow Patrol, Irish Whisky, RMS Titanic, George Best and Jordanstown School.

  
• 10.23.2020

  Archives of Day 5

  Includes the resolutions, introduction of incoming executive, looking ahead, closing comments, thanks and farewells.

  
• 10.22.2020

  Lego Braille Bricks

  Braille Bonus by Cathy Rundle, Accessibility Consultancy and User Experience Team, Royal National Institute of Blind People.

  
• 10.22.2020

  Postcard from Worcester

  Featuring Worcestershire Porcelain, Lea & Perrins (Worcestershire sauce), Sir Edward Elgar, Worcester Cathedral, the Three Choirs Festival, the River Severn, seaguls, the Worcester County Cricket Ground, flooding, the city walls, the Commandery and New College Worcester.

  
• 10.22.2020

  Archives of Day 4

  Includes braille literacy and learning papers, the Second Report of the Nominations Committee and a second Code Maintenance Committee discussion.

  
• 10.21.2020

  Euromath: enabling mathematical communication between teacher and student using UEB

  https://euromath.eu [email protected] Twitter: @fitzpatrickd For many students, mathematics represents a significant educational challenge. This is exacerbated in the context of blind students who must not only learn the concepts underpinning this discipline, but must also become proficient in the UEB linear representation. In...

  
• 10.21.2020

  Technical Material in UEB: developing an NLS curriculum

  Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired opened its doors in 1903, and is located in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Clovernook's Braille Printing House has been in operation since 1914, when a printing press was donated to the organization. Braille...

  
• 10.21.2020

  Hand in Hand: the confluence of braille and technology in specialist education and beyond

  NCW is a secondary school for vision-impaired students. For decades, braille has been a fundamental tool enabling vision-impaired people to read and write. Yet fluency in the reading of braille, plus its ready availability, has been in...

  
• 10.21.2020

  Factors Contributing to Braille Learning and Reading Performance as Individuals Age

  As the prevalence of age-related vision loss continues to increase, rehabilitation specialists encounter a growing number of working-age and older adults who experience reading related difficulties. In the United States alone, the prevalence of age-related vision loss is expected to...

  
• 10.21.2020

  Dual Media Case Studies: perspectives on literacy by four adolescents, their teachers, and family members

  A student who uses both print and braille for literacy tasks is referred to as a dual media learner. Some students begin literacy instruction as dual media learners, other students begin as print readers and later learn to read braille,...

  
• 10.21.2020

  Teaching American English Sounds to Blind and Low Vision Learners using Assistive Technology

  https://thesis.medinago.msu.domains/ This project was designed to improve the inclusive nature of courses on language learning and teaching through the creation of Adaptive English Phonetic tools (ADEPT) to provide better access to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols and the sounds they...

  
• 10.21.2020

  Inspiring Literacy: using balanced, comprehensive reading and writing instruction within an inclusive environment to support braille-reading students

  There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me,...

  
• 10.21.2020

  Study of Braille Fluency in Australia and New Zealand

  https://dApdots.ridbc.org.au The results of the research into Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) of children around Australia and New Zealand who read braille will be shared. There were 73 students in total. These results were compared to Australian sighted normative data. Results were...

  
• 10.21.2020

  Postcard from Wales

  Featuring the Welsh language, the longest place name in Europe, castles, Eisteddfod and famous Welsh people.

  
• 10.21.2020

  A History of Refreshable Braille

  Braille Bonus by Mike Hudson, Museum Director, American Printing House for the Blind

  
• 10.21.2020

  Archives of Day 3

  Includes an agreement to refer the constitution and bylaws changes to the incoming Executive Committee, the report of the Braille Technology Committee, braille technology papers and the Code Maintenance Report and discussion.

  
• 10.20.2020

  Using a Range of Braille Technologies to Access Adult Life

  As a blind adult who has learnt braille from my infancy and who has used braille throughout my professional and personal adult life, I feel it is important to emphasise the impact of using braille technology on a person's every-day...

  
• 10.20.2020

  Better Braille Translation for Everyone: importance of maintaining Liblouis

  This paper describes RNIB's systematic approach to reviewing and rectifying shortcomings in the open source Liblouis braille translation library relied on by popular screen reading and transcription products and services. Since 2018, RNIB and international partners have identified over 3,000 errors...

  
• 10.20.2020

  Following Print: what does this really mean in the electronic environment?

  As a sighted transcriber with the Department for Education in South Australia, I transcribe into braille literary, mathematics and other technical material, music, and languages such as French, German, Italian, Indonesian and Japanese. As technology has advanced and with the...

  
• 10.20.2020

  Automated Braille: the good, the bad and the fabulous

  If someone had told me ten years ago that I could access nearly any book I wanted and that I could even read it in braille I would never have believed it. Automated braille translation (such as Apple's built-in braille...

  
• 10.20.2020

  Moving Toward Greater Accuracy: improvements and challenges in electronic print-to-braille and braille-to-print translation since the implementation of Unified English Braille

  Electronically-generated braille is a foundational tool for literacy for blind people in our digital age. Unified English Braille (UEB), with its clearly defined rules and symbol structures, provides, on its own or in combination with other specialized braille codes, a...

  
• 10.20.2020

  Producing Ebraille Books

  The RNIB has an extensive braille library available for customers to borrow in hard copy. Each book consists of several weighty volumes which are sent out and returned by free post. With the advent of more affordable braille displays, more customers...

  
• 10.20.2020

  Braille Slates

  Braille Bonus by Judy Dixon, Owner, BrailleSlates.org

  
• 10.20.2020

  Postcard from Liverpool

  European Capital of Culture. Featuring the Royal School for the Blind, St Vincent's, an Anglican and Roman Catholic Cathedral, Liverpool FC and Everton football clubs, the capital of pop and the Liverpool accent.

  
• 10.20.2020

  Archives of Day 2

  Includes a nominations update, the report of the Music Braille Committee, braille music papers, the Constitution and Bylaws Report, the Treasurer's Report and the Promotion and Publicity Report.