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UPDATE-Deadline extended to 31 Aug!!! Only few more days to submit trilingual proposal to RID for 2013 Conf!

Mano a Mano Admin

Message from our Mano a Mano Region V representative:

Dear Trilingual Community:

I just want remind you that the deadline to submit proposals has been extended to August 31. The program committee hasn’t yet received trilingual topics proposals. I encourage all of you that were thinking to submit but didn’t have enough time to do it, that now it is your opportunity.

Caleb Lopez
Trilingual Interpreter ASL/English/Spanish
EIPA Certification

Begin forwarded message:

From: Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf <advertising@rid.org>
Subject: 2013 RID National Conference – CALL FOR PROPOSALS NOW OPEN!
Date: July 9, 2012 4:36:00 PM CDT
To: <davidqp@mail.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: <advertising@rid.org>

2013 RID National Conference – Call for Proposals Now Open!

RID’s 50th anniversary is upon us! The 2013 RID National Conference in Indianapolis will be the kickoff to the celebration of our 50th with the theme of “50 & Forward…Building on the Legacy!” We are very excited for the conference which will take place August 9-14, 2013, and also to celebrate 50 years of RID with you. Preparations are already underway and today we are pleased to announce that the call for proposals for the 2013 conference is NOW OPEN!

The 2013 RID Conference Program Committee is anxiously awaiting your proposals. Guidelines for how the program committee will score the proposals are also available now. The deadline for proposals is Wednesday, August 15. Questions may be submitted to Laura Romaine, RID Meetings Manager, at meetings@rid.org.

The Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc.
333 Commerce St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
www.rid.org
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Trilingual Interpreting Survey!

Mano a Mano Admin
Gallaudet University Regional Interpreter Education Center
New Survey for Trilingual Sign Language Interpreters

Are you a trilingual interpreter who uses Spanish/English and ASL?
Do you have tow or more years of active experience working in trilingual settings?
If so, we invite you to participate in a survey focusing on trilingual interpreting — the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed for successful interpreting.
The survey is being conducted by the National Consortium of Interpreter Education Centers.
Additional information about the survey

Survey Icon The National Consortium of Interpreter Education Centers (NCIEC) has established a National Trilingual Interpreting Task Force to further the trilingual interpreting profession. The overall goal of the Task Force on Trilingual Interpreting is to increase the number of qualified interpreters able to interpret between English, American Sign Language (ASL) and Spanish by enhancing leadership, determine effective practices around trilingual interpreting, and providing educational opportunities and related resources. A critical component is the identification of the competencies and skills needed to successfully interpret in trilingual settings. one method for doing this identification is through conducting surveys.

 

We hope that you will read the attached invitational letter which contains the survey link, then participate in the survey, and distribute this information to other interested interpreters.

 

Initial Invitational letter – English

Initial Invitational letter – Spanish

 

For further information, please contact Beverly Hollrah – Beverly.Hollrah@gallaudet.edu
Gallaudet University Regional Interpreter Education Center
800 Florida Avenue NE
Washington, DC 20002
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Call for Proposals for the 2013 RID National Conference

Mano a Mano Admin
Greetings Mano a Mano members,

The Call for Proposals for the 2013 RID National Conference has been released!
http://www.rid.org/userfiles/File/pdfs/2013%20Conference/RID2013CallForProposals.pdf

And here are the nine domains on which proposals will be scored:
http://www.rid.org/userfiles/File/pdfs/2013%20Conference/RID2013ProposalScoring.pdf

The deadline to apply is August 15, 2012.

Please spread the word!
Steve Phan, CI, CT, SC:L

2013 RID Biennial Conference Program Committee Chair
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Understanding Healthcare Interpreting-input needed!

Mano a Mano Admin

Dear Interpreter,

You are invited to influence the future of healthcare interpreting!

We are writing to you because you are a member of RID and, if you have experience in healthcare interpreting (any amount of experience), we would like to invite you to participate in a very important project about the work of healthcare interpreters. Our names are Laurie Swabey (Professor of ASL/Interpreting and CATIE Center Principal Investigator) and Andrea Olson (Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology, and CATIE Center Evaluator).

The purposes of this survey are to gain a better understanding of the work of healthcare interpreters, identify the various titles used for/by healthcare interpreters, and describe the similarities and differences in healthcare interpreting positions among a national sample of healthcare interpreters. This is an important opportunity to describe the work of healthcare interpreters.

These data will be used to better educate interpreters working in healthcare settings.  For the purposes of this project, “healthcare” includes physical health, mental health, and dental health.

If you decide to participate, you may enter your name on a separate page (not linked to your anonymous survey responses) for a chance to win either a registration for the National Symposium on Healthcare Interpreting to be held in July 2012 at St. Catherine University, or a free copy of the new volume In Our Hands: Educating Healthcare Interpreters (Swabey & Malcolm, 2012) published by Gallaudet University Press.

If you are interested in sharing your experiences about healthcare interpreting, please click on the following link, which will take you to more information about the study and to the survey. The survey should take approximately 30-40 minutes to complete. You may complete the survey in more than 1 session. Please complete the survey by Friday, June 15.

http://stkate.qualtrics.com//SE/?SID=SV_6mK4eVs7GE084h6

Thank you!

Laurie Swabey and Andrea Olson

Laurie Swabey, Ph.D.
Professor, Interpreting
Director, CATIE Center
St. Catherine University
St. Paul MN 55105
651-690-6797
651-212-7408 (VP)
laswabey@stkate.edu

Andrea M. Olson, Ph.D.
Department Chair and Associate Professor
Psychology Department
Evaluator, CATIE Center
St. Catherine University
St. Paul, MN  55105
(651) 690-8794
andreamolson@stkate.edu

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