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The Learning tables can be found amongst all English braille tables. When configuring your language
profile and selecting the preferred literacy braille table you can select the relevant learning table
followed by the current series you are undertaken,
Details of each course can be viewed below, which is shared from Duxbury systems.
NLS I.M.BT. (UEB 2015)
This series of "select contractions" steps is based upon the "Instruction Manual for Braille Transcribers,"
(UEB, 2015) published by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped of the
Library of Congress. The lesson numbers associated with the steps correspond to that document; the
contractions are introduced as follows:
Lesson 4.2:
as, you, it, will, very, us, that, so, rather, quite, people, not, more, like, knowledge, just, have, go, from,
every, do, can, but
Lesson 4.3:
with, the, of, for, and
Lesson 5.1:
still, out, which, this, shall, child
Lesson 5.3:
st, ou, wh, sh, ch, th
Lesson 6.1:
ing, ow, gh, er, ed, ar
Lesson 7.2:
be (wordsign), were, was, his
Lesson 7.3:
enough
Lesson 7.4:
in (wordsign)
Lesson 7.5:
en, in (groupsign)