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American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
11 Penn Plaza, Suite 300
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 1-800-AFB-LINE (232-5463) or (212) 502-7600
E-mail: afbinfo@afb.net
Website: http://www.afb.org
The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is a national nonprofit that expands
possibilities for people with vision loss. AFB's priorities include broadening
access to technology; elevating the quality of information and tools for the
professionals who serve people with vision loss; and promoting independent and
healthy living for people with vision loss by providing them and their families
with relevant and timely resources. AFB's work in these areas is supported by
the strong presence the organization maintains in Washington, DC, ensuring the
rights and interests of people with vision loss are represented in our nation's
public policies.
In addition to its New York City headquarters and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, AFB maintains offices in Atlanta, Dallas, Huntington, WV, and San Francisco. AFB is also proud to house the Helen Keller Archives and honor the over forty years that Helen Keller worked tirelessly with AFB to expand possibilities for people with vision loss.
AFB
National Literacy Center (NLC)
American Foundation for the Blind
100 Peachtree Street, Suite 620
Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone: 404-525-4845, FAX: 404-659-6957
E-mail: literacy@afb.net
brl-help listserv, DOTS (Development of Teacher Support) for Braille Literacy
, and Braille Literacy Mentors in Training: The Next Generation workshops: way
of sharing ideas among practitioners, consumers, parents, and others interested
in braille literacy including Nemeth Code and tactile graphics.
AssistiveTech.Net
Website: http://www.assistivetech.net/
A diverse resource for assistive technology (AT) and
disability-related information. Their searchable database helps you target solutions,
determine costs and find vendors of AT products for:
Association for Education and Rehabilitation
of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER)
1703 North Beauregard Street
Suite 440
Alexandria, VA 22311
Phone: 703-671-4500
FAX: 703-671-6391
E-mail: aer@aerbvi.org
Website: http://www.aerbvi.org
International membership organization dedicated to rendering all possible support
and assistance to the professionals who work in all phases of education and
rehabilitation of blind and visually impaired children and adults.
AERBVI
Publications: http://www.aerbvi.org/publications/
Computerized Nemeth Code Tutor
Strategies for Developing Mathematics Skills in Students Who Use Braille
BRAILLE AUTHORITY OF NORTH AMERICA (BANA)
Mathematics Technical Committee
Betsy McBride, Chair
Mary Archer, Board Liaison
Committee Members:
Tactile Graphics Technical Committee
Lucia Hasty, Chair
Carol Morrison, Board Liaison
Committee Members:
Please address all questions to the Chairperson of BANA, who will then see
that they are forwarded to the proper technical committee.
Website: http://www.brailleauthority.org/
BANA has established "technical" committees composed of transcribers,
braille readers, and educators whose purpose is to update the braille codes,
formats, or techniques. These changes, which may be suggested by readers, transcribers,
and/or producers are carefully studied. Proposed new codes or revisions are
submitted to other technical committees to avoid conflict with existing braille
codes. The BANA Board issues final approval for adoption and dissemination.
BRL: Braille Through Remote Learning Homepage
Robert R. Gotwals, Jr., Computational Science Educator
The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
923 Broad Street Suite 100
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 286-1911 (Voice/TDD) (919) 286-7876 (fax)
E-mail: gotwals@shodor.org
Website: http://www.brl.org/
on-line course in Nemeth Code available late Fall, 1998.
CALIFORNIA TRANSCRIBERS & EDUCATORS
OF THE VISUALLY HANDICAPPED (CTEVH)
Braille Transcribers and Proofers:
Computer-Generated Tactile Specialist -
Raphael Camarena,
Mathematics Specialist - Mary Denault
Hand-Drawn Tactile Specialist - Art Benitez
Website: http://www.ctevh.org/
CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
WGBH Educational Foundation
125 Western Avenue
Boston, MA 02134
Phone: (617) 300-3400
TTY: (617) 300-2489
FAX: (617) 300-1035
Email: ncam@wgbh.org
Website: http://ncam.wgbh.org
Making Educational Software and Web Sites Accessible Design Guidelines
Including Math and Science Solutions by Geoff Freed, Madeleine Rothberg
and Tom Wlodkowski
http://ncam.wgbh.org/cdrom/guideline/
The Access to PIVoT Project, January 2003
EASI - Equal Access to Software
and Information for Persons with Disabilities
Website: http://www.rit.edu/~easi/
latest research in the field (especially pertaining to math, science, and engineering),
excellent publications can be downloaded from here, also has a listserv.
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics
and Science Education (ENC)
Website: http://www.enc.org/
ENC Online is a K-12 math and science teacher center. Visit Classroom
Calendar, Digital Dozen, ENC
Focus, or Lessons & Activities.
Or just Ask
ENC.
ENC's web
site will disappear forever... unless your school subscribes now!
goENC.com will
combine the best of ENC Online with useful new tools to save you time.
Take action today--tell
your librarian or principal how much you need ENC! Visit
goENC.com for details.
The Hadley School for the Blind
700 Elm Street
Winnetka, IL 60093-2554
Phone: 800-323-4238, FAX 708-446-8153
Email: info@hadley-school.org
Website: http://www.Hadley-school.org/
Offers a tuition-free home study course entitled Essentials of Nemeth which
offers exercises in both reading and writing Nemeth Code and covers the basic
arithmetic operations, fractions, some algebra, and a little bit of geometry.
Offers several math courses including: Mathematics Diagnostic Test, Essentials
of Mathematics I, Essentials of Mathematics II, Mathematics I: General,
Mathematics II: Pre-Algebra, Applied Mathematics, Algebra, Geometry, Doing
It the Metric Way, Abacus I, Abacus II.
Iowa State
University - Instructional Technology Center
1200 Communications Building
Ames, IA 50011-3243
Phone: 800-447-0060 or 515-294-1540
FAX: 515-294-8089
Website: http://www.itc.iastate.edu/classrms/media.html
Preparing Tactile Adaptations for Math and Science Video
Using Adaptations for Math and Science Video
Mathematics
Internet Library
Website: http://www.businessbookmall.com/Mathematics%20Internet%20Library.htm
Free
Internet Mathematics Books from Quick Notes, K-8 Sites, Specific Subject
Sites, Advanced Mathematics Sites, Advance Placement Test Help, Advanced
Mathematics and Tests from SOS Mathematics, free Computer Software,
Special Purpose Sites, Improving
Math Grades and Test Scores, and much more.
The Math Forum at Drexel University
Website: http://www.mathforum.org
one of the most useful online resources for K-12+ math teachers. Forum features
include: Ask Dr. Math, discussion groups, Internet newsletter, Teacher2Teacher,
search engine, and more.
Dr. Peter B.L. Meijer
Building WAY 41
High Tech Campus 5
5656 AE Eindhoven
THE NETHERLANDS
E-mail: feedback@seeingwithsound.com
The vOICe Math Functions
Website: http://www.seeingwithsound.com/voice.htm
Accessible Graphing Calculator for the Blind
Website: http://www.seeingwithsound.com/winmath.htm
National Braille Association, Inc.
3 Townline Circle
Rochester, NY 14623-2513
Phone: 585-427-8260, FAX 585-427-0263
E-mail: nbaoffice@nationalbraille.org
Website: http://www.nationalbraille.org/
Mission: To provide continuing education to those who prepare braille, and
to provide braille materials to persons who are visually impaired. (For example:
Nemeth Code Reference Sheet, publications and workshops on Nemeth Code, tactile
Graphics, and Nemeth translation software).
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
(NCTM)
1906 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191-1502
TEL: (703) 620-9840 | FAX: (703) 476-2970
Website: http://www.nctm.org
articles, curriculum, classroom and professional development resources,
and a search engine. NCTM has also developed a set of principles and standards
important for teaching and learning mathematics.
National Library Service for the Blind
and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress,
Washington, DC 20542
Phone: 202-707-9275 or 202-707-5100, or 800-424-8567
FAX: 202-707-0712
E-mail: nls@loc.gov
Website: http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/nls/
Administers
a free library program of braille and recorded materials circulated to eligible
borrowers through a network of cooperating libraries. Also provides the publication: Sources
of Custom-Produced Books: Braille, AudioRecordings, Large Print (2001).
The NASA JSC Learning Technologies
Project Information Access Lab
NASA Learning Technologies
Johnson Space Center Education
Website: http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov
Where Innovation Meets the Classroom
The
Math Description Engine (MDE)
The Math Description Engine Software Development
Kit is freely available to and can be used by software developers to make computer-rendered
graphs more accessible to blind and visually-impaired users. It has a simple
API that lets you easily add alternative text and sound descriptions to your
graphs. Version 1 of the MDE SDK generates text descriptions for 2D graphs
commonly seen in math and science curriculum (and practice). The mathematically
rich text descriptions can also serve as a virtual math and science assistant
for blind and sighted users, making graphs more accessible for everyone.
Use the Math Description Engine to make graphing calculators, data analysis
programs, computer simulations, or webite displays more accessible. (http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/mde/
)
MathTrax
MathTrax is a graphing software
that is accessible to blind and vision-impaired students. It supports critical
math, science and technology learning objectives, and makes teaching and learning
about science and math more accessible, fun, and easy for everyone! It describes
graphs three ways - with "smart" text descriptions, nonverbal sound descriptions,
and custom graphics descriptions - to suite different learning styles. Teachers
and students can use the Equation panel to evaluate equations, the Data panel
to import and plot tabular data and the Simulation panel to model roller coaster
physics and rocket launches. MathTrax is fully accessible to screenreader users.
These users can conveniently and immediately access MathTrax's alternative
text and sound graph descriptions. (http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/mathtrax/)
Research and Development Institute, Inc.
Gaylen Kapperman, Director
P. O. Box 351
Sycamore, IL 60178
Phone: 815-895-3078, FAX 815-895-2448
E-mail: gkapper@niu.edu
Computerized tutorial for Nemeth Code and instructional strategies manual on
teaching math to visually impaired students. RDI has produced an accessible
Nemeth Code tutorial which operates on the Braille Lite. The tutorial can
be downloaded at no cost from http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_downloads/notenemeth.asp.
Science Access Project Homepage
John Gardner, Director
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-6507
Phone: 541-737-3278, FAX: 541-737-1683
E-mail: gardner@physics.orst.edu
Website: http://dots.physics.orst.edu/
The purpose of this group is to develop methods for making science, math, and
engineering information accessible to people with print disabilities. These
include: Tactile Display Methodologies, Audio/Visual Display Methodologies,
Access to Object-Oriented Graphics, Research and Development of Major Software
Utilizing Display-Independent Information and Multimodal Display, and Overview
of Research and Development of New Hardware for Non-Visual Information Display.
T. V. Raman
IBM Research
Almaden Research Center
San Jose, CA
Phone: (408) 927-2608 (Work), (408) 268-1660 (Home)
Email: raman@cs.cornell.edu
Website: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman
Inventor of AsTeR - Audio System For Technical Readings - a computing system
that produces audio documents from electronic documents. It is especially
adept at handling technical documents with complex content - math.
Tactile Access to Education for Visually Impaired Students (TAEVIS)
Sue Wilder, Director
1149 South Campus Courts-E
Purdue University
West Lafayette IN 47907-1149
Phone: (765) 496-2856
Fax: (765) 496-3423
E-mail: braille@purdue.edu
Website: http://www.taevisonline.purdue.edu
software program that can translate mathematical and scientific equations into
a format appropriate for blind students, used in conjunction with Duxbury braille
translation software; mathematical and scientific tactile graphics available
on-line.
TAEVIS diagram
manual
TAEVIS diagram CD
TIRESIAS
Information resource for people working in the field of visual disabilities
Contact: Dr. John Gill
Scientific Research Unit
Royal National Institute for the Blind
224 Great Portland Street
London W1N 6AA
United Kingdom
Telephone +44 20 7391 2371
Fax +44 20 7388 7747
Email john.gill@rnib.org.uk
Website: http://www.tiresias.org/
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