Changing to UEB requires a number of concept shifts, which we did 10 years ago
in Australia. There are a number of things you need to "unlearn", not just a
few contractions.
Whichever method of learning you use I would recommend you pay careful
attention to understanding the following:
1. The Stand Alone Rule: This clearly states what we have always known, but
gives clear rules where wordsigns and shortforms may or may not be used.
However you may find some surprises: eg wordsigns may not be used with slashes.
2. The rules for Lower Groupsigns and Wordsigns.
3. The use of the Shortform List in determining which longer words may or may
not use a shortform.
As a transcriber, it is important to understand these rules, and appreciate the
reasoning behind them. It is because these rules have been clearly defined that
DBT is able to have a product which has a very high rate of accuracy.
Kathy
Kathy Riessen
Coordinator Accessible Format Production
South Australian School for Vision Impaired
Tel: 08 8277 5255
Email: Kathleen.Riessen440@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Jill: I had previously downloaded the lessons from NFB, and have been in the
process of converting it in DBT. And I have found that, so far, the lessons
from NFB are pretty much the same as the ones I had studied to get my
transcribing certification; but it has the UEB changes in it. So, I will
combine that with the CNIB book I received from NFB as well. Hope this works. I
am just trying to wrap my head around the changes. I guess that happens with us
older folks lol. Jerry
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Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 5:26 PM
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Hello Paul:
The UEBonline is a interactive program. You study a chapter and six-key enter
the braille lesson exercises and type the braille reading exercise. You can't
move on until it is correct, which is both wonderful and frustrating. (smile)
There are differences in the Australian online course from an American
standpoint. Mostly unexpected phrases and spelling. I did notice if you go too
fast and make a mistake, the program can't compensate when you go back. So,
sometimes it will not recognize that you've corrected your error. Best to
either do the whole paragraph again or save the program and go back in.
The Wisconsin Center for the Blind UEB course is a video series. There are
worksheets, but it's quite self-directed. However, that being said, WCBVI's
always been receptive to emailed inquiries.
I did notice a few other programs around, but these two (above), the CNIB
course, and the NLS programs are, in my humble opinion, the best.
The CNIB full program is self-directed in the same way as NLS, but I think it
is more rigorous. There also is a fee to take the course. CNIB also has some
unexpected phrases and spelling. I did notice that there were some changes
during the year that were not updated in the CNIB program, but were updated in
the NLS program.
I particularly enjoyed the UEBonline. Wish there were an American version for
literary and Nemeth. That would be awesome!
There's my scoop. Anyone else find some? Jill
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Top of the evening to you Jillian:
What distinguishes the first from the second online tutorial you mentioned?
If you were to choose one, which of the two would you recommend?
Who gives approval to all these growing online UEB tutorials?
Cheers,
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UEBonline.org Awesome program!
Also, I am a huge fan of the Wisconsin Center for the Blind UEB course for
vision professionals. Jill
http://www.wcbvi.k12.wi.us/outreach/professional-development/unified-english-braille-vision-professionals
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Many transcribers I deal with have taken the UEBOnline (Australian) course.
http://uebonline.org/
UEBOnline | UEB Braille Training for sighted learners<http://uebonline.org/>
uebonline.org
Introducing UEB Online. UEB Online is a training program for sighted people to
learn Unified English Braille (UEB). Unified English Braille has been adopted
by many ...
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Miss Sara:
Thanks. Can you suggest any other study materials? I know that the NFB has a
resource list, and I already have downloaded the lessons from their site.
Thanks again.
From: Sarah Rebecca Cohen
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 3:29 PM
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Hi, Jerry.
Here’s what the Braille Authority of North America has to say about eliminated
contractions in UEB:
“ation and ally were eliminated because they created complications in rules
having to do with capital letters in the middle of words. Now all capital
letters can be used anywhere.
to, into and by were eliminated to allow for greater consistency in usage of
other symbols, and so that all words have space boundaries.
com was eliminated in order to remove the ambiguity between the contraction and
a hyphen.
ble was eliminated to allow for precise reading and writing of numbers wherever
they occur within literary context.
dd was eliminated to allow for a single way to show the period/dot/decimal
point even when it occurs in the middle of words or numbers.
o'clock was eliminated because it is a rarely used word and an exception to the
capital rule would have been necessary.”
<http://www.brailleauthority.org/ueb/abcs/abcs-ueb.html#contractions>http://www.brailleauthority.org/ueb/abcs/abcs-ueb.html#contractions
Hope this helps!
Sarah
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To All DBT Users”":
I have, what may be considered a dumb question. I have received my UPDATE TO
UEB manual. I was going through it up to the “Less Restrictive Contractions”
section and I thought to myself, Why are some of the contractions eliminated? I
know that for some, it is to reduce the possibility of confusing them with
other braille signs/contractions. However, as in the seperation of the
contractions for “For”, “AND”, “OF”, “THE”, “WITH”, and the letter “A”, there
is no connectivity between these. For work I do, it is great, income wise; but
I thought the whole premise of braille ws to conserve line/page space. As I
said, just a dumb question. Thanks for any clarification.
Jerry
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