Resources for Learning and Refreshing Literary Braille Skills

1. New Programmed Instruction in Braille, 2nd Edition by Ashcroft, Henderson, Sanford and Koenig. Also the NPIB Companion Reader in embossed braille, to practice reading along with the NPIB program. Used often in university programs.

SCALARS Publishing
P.O. Box 382834
Germantown, TN 38183-2834

Telephone: 901-737-0001

2. Braille Codes and Calculations by Pesavento. Used often in university programs.

Exceptional Teaching Aids
20102 Woodbine Avenue
Castro Valley, CA 94546

Telephone: 800-549-6999

3. The Braille Tutor by Kapperman, et al. Computer assisted instruction and refresher course designed for sighted people who have access to a computer, and wish to learn braille.

Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually
Impaired (AER)
4600 Duke Street, Suite 430
Alexandria VA 22304

Telephone: 703-823-9690

4. Braille Through Remote Learning on-line braille course (through Fall 1999).

Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
923 Broad Street, Suite 100
Durham, NC 27705

Telephone: 919-286-1911
E-Mail: gotwals@shodor.org
URL: http://www.brl.org

5. English Braille, American Edition, 1994. The official BANA rules for braille. Available in print and braille.

American Printing House for the Blind
P.O. Box 6085
Louisville, KY 40206

Telephone: 800-223-1839

6. Literary Braille Refresher Course. Designed for people who have learned braille already. Available in print and braille.

National Braille Association
3 Townline Circle
Rochester, NY 14623

Telephone: 716-427-0263

7. Braille Formats: Principles of Print to Braille Transcription (as well as other code books). Available in print and braille.

American Printing House for the Blind
P.O. Box 6085
Louisville, KY 40206

Telephone: 800-223-1839

8. Braille transcribers' course

National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress
1291 Taylor Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20542

Telephone: 800-424-8567

Other important resources:

• The Hadley School for the Blind offers free correspondence courses in braille for adults who are blind, and for family members of those individuals.

Hadley School for the Blind
700 Elm Street
Winnetka, IL 60093-0299

Telephone: 800-323-4238

• Just Enough to Know Better, Designed for sighted parents, this book is included in the parent course from Hadley.

National Braille Press
88 St. Stephen Street
Boston, MA 02115

Telephone: 800-548-7323