President's Message
Diane Pevsner,
University of Alabama at Birmingham
dpevsner@uab.edu
Change is difficult. Change can be painful. Change can deprive us of
serenity. Change can bring about discouragement when the results we were
hoping for do not happen immediately.
The thing to remember while trudging through the process of change is
that by making the first step, and the effort, progress is being made. Without
change, we become stagnate and nothing improves. If Annie Sullivan didn't
change the expectations Captain and Mrs. Keller had for Helen, the miracle
may have never happened.
The profession of visual impairments is currently going through a major
change. In November of 2012, the Braille Authority of North America (BANA)
voted to adopt the Unified English Braille (UED) literary code. This change
will help braille readers and transcribers by eliminating multiple symbols with
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