The Road to Deaf Interpreting (RDI) training series was created in the fall of 2006 with both Jim and Stephanie coordinating the details of securing space, obtaining instructors, and designing course requirements while local Deaf Interpreters provided input and advice over time along with support from the National Consortium of Interpreter Education Center (NCIEC).

 

The first RDI cohort group started in April 2008 and since then we have had our second, third, fourth, and fifth cohort groups with the most recent cohort participants graduating in May 2019. As a result of RDI's program, many graduates have gone on to pass RID's national CDI written and performance exams, and many graduates are now approved by their state regulations i.e. quality assurance or licensing and now are working as Deaf Interpreters.

 

Road to Deaf Interpreting program was a model for the National Consortium of Interpreter Education Center (NCIEC)'s Deaf Interpreter Curriculum published in 2014 with six modules that created strategies to measure student achievement of intended outcomes as Deaf Interpreters. Both Stephanie and Jim served as expert team members on the Deaf Interpreter Work Group and piloted the curriculum with other team members over a one-year period with the RDI program for NCIEC.

 

Both Jim Lipsky and Stephanie Clark received the Massachusetts State Association of the Deaf (MSAD) award, “The William B. Swett" Award in 2017, and the Massachusetts Commission of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (MCDHH) award, “Outstanding Service Provider of the Year” in 2018.

 

See the photo gallery of our first five RDI graduation photos!

 

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Stephanie Clark and Jim Lipsky

RDI program co-coordinators