• Legal
• Lingusitics
• Deafhood & Deaf/Hearing Teams
• K-12/EIPA
• Licensure

Schedule at a Glance:

• Registration opens Thursday at 1pm, with workshops starting at 3:30pm
• Keynote Thursday night
• Workshops all day Friday
• Peter Cook Entertainment Friday evening *Important* Registration for the evening entertainment is separate from conference registration!
• Workshops all day Saturday & WSRID Business Meeting part 1
• Business Meeting part 2 & workshops on Sunday ending at 3:30pm
• 2.2 CEUs will be available for attending all workshops and Keynote

Full schedule:

• Thursday 3:30pm - 6:30pm
  
• • Carla Mathers: "Legal Interpreting Lite – An Introduction"
  • Jan Humphrey: “Interpreting for Deaf Witnesses”
  • Katie Roberts: "Verbing ASL"
• Thursday 8:00pm - 10:00pm
  
• • Trudy Suggs Keynote: “From Deaf Disempowerment to True Allies”

• Friday 9:00am - 11:00am
  
• • Carla Mathers: "The Path to Specialization: The SC: L -- Day 1 part 1"
  • Laurie Reinhardt: “Deaf – Hearing Teams: Navigating Trust in Shared Space”
  • Crom Saunders: “Bill Nye Who?”
• Friday 1:00pm - 4:00pm
  
• • Carla Mathers: "The Path to Specialization: The SC: L -- Day 1 part 2"
  • Peter Cook: "Narrator & Character in Storytelling"
  • Trudy Suggs: "Think of a Word Quick!"
• Friday 4:15pm - 6:15pm
  
• • April McArthur: "Educational Interpreters: How to be an Ally"
  • Trudy Suggs: "Deaf Disempowerment to True Allies"
  • Jan Humphrey: "Mediation & Arbitration"

• Friday 7:30pm - 10:30pm
  
• • 2015 WSRID Conference Friday night entertainment
    
  • *Important* Registration for the evening entertainment is separate from conference registration!

Registration dates:

Language Policy:
The 2015 WSRID Conference is an "all-signing, all the time" environment, to create a Deaf-friendly environment. Please respect this policy while you are attending all conference events, including workshops, entertainment events, and in the concourse of the Lynnwood Convention Center.


CEU Policy:
CEUs are pending approval by the Western Region Interpreter Education Center at Western Oregon University,
an approved RID CMP and ACET sponsor.  In order to receive CEUs for a workshop, you must attend the entirety of the workshop.


Keynote:
The Keynote presentation on Thursday evening is available to any registered Conference attendee, regardless of which day(s) you have paid for.

Sponsors:

Thank you so much to our generous sponsors!  This conference would not have been possible without their donations!

ASLIN http://www.aslnetwork.com/

Dynamic Language Center http://www.dynamiclanguage.com/

 

HSDC http://www.hsdc.org/

H&H http://www.handhpublishingonline.com/

ODHH https://www.dshs.wa.gov/altsa/office-deaf-and-hard-hearing

Purple Communications http://www.purple.us/

Sorenson http://www.sorenson.com/

Refund Policy:

• All refund requests must be emailed to 2015wsridconference@gmail.com.
• Refund requests prior to September 8th will receive a 100% refund.
• Refund requests prior to October 1st will receive a 50% refund.
• No refund requests will be available October 1st or later.

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