Concord, California - HumanWare, the global leader in assistive technologies for vision, today continued its efforts under the Support Braille Literacy umbrella with the announcement of the Nemeth Code Tutorial, for the BrailleNote mPower family of notetakers for the blind. The Nemeth Code Tutorial content was developed by Dr. Gaylen Kapperman and Jodi Sticken of Northern Illinois University and integrated into the BrailleNote environment by HumanWare.
"I'm very happy to collaborate with HumanWare to develop the Nemeth Tutorial on the BrailleNote mPower," said Dr. Kapperman. "Many of us have worked for years to make Nemeth code instruction available for both teachers and students. We have conducted extensive testing, written new lessons and re-tested, all to make this a highly effective tutorial for Nemeth code."
The Nemeth code is the leading code for representing mathematical symbols in Braille, used in the United States, Canada and New Zealand. Learning the Nemeth code is crucial to blind students and adults who want to perform mathematics, opening doors in education and employment.
The tutorial is presented in 18 chapters with lessons covering everything from the basics of writing numbers up to statistics. Each lesson is broken down into four parts: an explanation of the lesson and reading, writing and proof-reading exercises.
The BrailleNote mPower family are the leading notetakers in education and employment for the blind. BrailleNotes are found in greater and greater numbers in schools as well as in work and everyday activities, where the speed and productivity that BrailleNote enables make a life-changing difference. Access to mathematics is a crucial element in braille literacy.
"We are excited about this new addition of the Nemeth Tutorial for blind students and adults for the BrailleNote mPower", said Dominic Gagliano, HumanWare USA VP for Blindness Sales. "Our relationships with school districts, teachers and students continue to grow stronger. With the Nemeth tutorial, the BrailleNote is a powerful tool to aid students to excel in math and science and meet competitive graduation and college entrance requirements."
The Nemeth Tutorial is available as an option for the BrailleNote mPower BT and QT only, running the latest version of KeySoft.
To find the HumanWare sales office near you, visit www.humanware.com
For further information please contact:
Dominic Gagliano
VP, Blindness Sales
HumanWare USA
Ph: 1 (925) 680-7100
dominic.gagliano@HumanWare.com
About HumanWare
HumanWare is the global leader in assistive technologies for vision, including products for the blind and visually impaired. HumanWare's products include BrailleNote, the leading productivity device for blind people in education, in business and in their personal lives; the Victor Reader product line, the world's leading digital talking book players; and myReader2, the new version of HumanWare's unique "auto-reader" for people with low vision.
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