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looking through the guide there were three issues with terminology that I
noticed.
1. The word "Braille" was always capitalized. So if you are like me, and
you ever wondered why so many authors were capitalizing braille in
CEC publications – it was probably not their doing.
2. The words "deaf-blind" and "deaf-blindness" were hyphenated. While
there is less of a standard for these terms, we recently changed our
division name to include deafblindness, unhyphenated.
3. Our division was still listed as "DVI".
At the General Business Meeting on Thursday, April 14 at the CEC
Convention in St. Louis I spoke to those present about these issues and
primed everyone to expect a survey on these three items to see if there was
division agreement on the terminology before sending the recommendation
forward. We received 34 responses to our survey and there was majority
agreement that these changes should be made (91.2% agreed for braille,
94.1% agreed for deafblind, and 94.1% agreed for DVIDB).
With the feedback provided from the survey, I made the following
recommendations for the CEC Style Guide.
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