For Event Coordinators
Individuals and organizations sponsoring professional development activities should start by consulting our region-wide calendar of events. The calendar shows the dates and locations of events taking place in the Deaf, Deafblind, and interpreting communities across our region. Once you select a date, please notify us so that your event is reflected in the calendar.Event coordinators may find assistance in identifying appropriate presenters on a variety of interpreting-related topics in our Speaker Bureau. The interpreting educators listed here have presented in our region under the former Northeastern University Regional Interpreter Education Project and received top evaluation scores from participants who rated their presentation skills.
For detailed support in the logistics of event coordination, please refer to the manual titled, How to Coordinate and Host a Successful Workshop or How Not to Get Lost in the Details. Dr. Julie Simon developed these guidelines in 2003 with federal funding support granted to the former Region X Interpreter Education Center in the Regional Resource Center on Deafness at Western Oregon University.
The Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) requires that interpreters earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to maintain their certification. The Northeastern University Regional Interpreter Education Center is an approved RID CEU Sponsor. Coordinators who wish to offer Sponsor Initiated Continuing Education Units for their educational event may find forms and application instructions here. If your training content is not directly related to interpreting, yet beneficial to interpreters, individual interpreters may nevertheless apply to earn CEUs through the Participant Initiated Non-RID Activity (PINRA) process, also found in this website.