Indiana Chapter of Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf

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Request for Participants:

The UCSD Cancer center is looking for participants to take part in a project that would help educate interpreters in the area of health care to better provide access to health information and care for Deaf individuals. This Project is partnered with Gallaudet university. What follows is a message from the project director:

We ideally would like to find five Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf–certified (RID) ASL interpreters from each state to help us test the training program. We’ve not yet had many responses from the interpreters in Indiana and I thought you might have some suggestions for us to pursue. The program is all done by long-distance learning online, and requires only a few hours each month over about a year’s time. It’s free while we’re evaluating it, and participants can apply to their local agency for independent continuing education study credits. For those participants who complete the training program, we provide both a certificate of completion and a $100 thank you, which they could then use to help pay for their independent study credits. Your advice about how to proceed with recruitment in Indiana would be greatly appreciated.

Please email asloncologyITP@gmail.com to register or if you’re interested in learning more about participating in the training program and to be notified when it’s ready for testing. Feel free to pass the information along to others. We hope to have 5 interpreters from each state so that the Deaf community of all states can benefit from this program. We also have a Facebook group for those who want to be updated on the program’s progress. It is titled “ASL Oncology Training Program for Interpreters” and can easily be found through a search.

Thanks,
Melanie C. Nakaji, Ph.D.
Project Director

UCSD Cancer Center
3855 Health Sciences Drive MC 0850
La Jolla, CA 92093

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