Professional Development

2022-2023 Activities, Trainings, & Meeting Dates

Please click on the above link to view all SNRP activities for the 2022-2023 school year. Click on individual links below to view/print flyers and registration forms for the specific upcoming activities.

ALL SCHEDULED EVENTS ARE TENTATIVE AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE DUE TO HEALTH DIRECTIVES PUT INTO PLACE TO PREVENT FURTHER SPREAD OF COVID-19.

ASL Language Mentoring Workshops

ASL Language Mentoring Workshops Flyer

These one-hour presentations will be a lesson on various deafness related topics. There will be time for Q&A afterwards. These will be presented in sign language with no English voice interpretation for receptive sign language skill development.

Upcoming Dates:

For: Free for Sign Language Interpreters and Deaf Educators employed in a Nebraska school district

Location: Virtual

Registration: Click here to register online

EIPA Video Conferences

EIPA Video Conferences Flyer

Click the link above to view a flyer with full workshop descriptions.

Upcoming Dates:

October 1, 2022: “Ethics and Values – What Guides Our Decisions?” – Amber Tucker
December 3, 2022: “Using EIPA Results to Enhance Personal Professional Development” – Deborah Cates
February 4, 2023: “Literary Devices in ASL Literature” – Casey J. Analco
April 1, 2023: “Mastery of Meaning” – William F. Ross III

Location: Virtual

For: Free for Sign Language Interpreters and Deaf Educators employed in a Nebraska school district

Registration: To gain access to the video conferences, please click here to complete the request form

IMET Independent Training Modules

IMET INDEPENDENT TRAINING MODULES FLYER

The Utah State University TASK12 Interpreter, Mentorship, Education & Training (IMET) Program offers a variety of independent study self-paced online training modules produced for sign language interpreters. Nebraska has collaborated with the IMET Program to provide access to five different online professional development modules developed for sign language interpreters and offered at no cost to participants employed in a Nebraska school district or ESU! Certificates of Completion and RID CEUs are available for successful completion.

Modules:

Cohesion & Prosody Development (8 week, 16 hour module)
Enhancing ASL Comprehension (8 week, 16 hour module)
Linguistically & Culturally Induced Information (8 week, 16 hour module)
Optimizing Visual Access for Deaf Students (6 week, 12 hour module)
Preparing Our Minds for the Work (6 week, 12 hour module)

Dates: Self-paced with module access available until June 30, 2022

Location: Virtual

For: Free for Sign Language Interpreters and Deaf Educators employed in a Nebraska school district

Registration: To gain access to any of the following modules, please click here to complete the request form

NRP Online Training for Professional Development

The Nebraska Regional Programs has a variety of online training for professional development opportunities.

Training Topics:

Assistive Technology
Audiology Basics
Deaf Culture & Social Emotional Support for Deaf
Discourse Mapping
Ethics: A Real Puzzle
Glossing Lyrics in ASL
Haptics – Visual & Environmental Information for Deaf-Blind
Interpreter Written EIPA Discussion
Nebraska VR: Where Your Future Begins
Normal Language Development
Receptive Fingerspelling Practice
Sentence Boundaries
SPICE Follow Up Training
SPICE for LIFE Follow Up Training
Strategies for Enhancing Language Opportunities
Vision Loss Basics
Zoom for the Educational Interpreter

Location: Virtual

For: Free for Sign Language Interpreters and Deaf Educators employed in a Nebraska school district

Registration: To gain access to any of the following trainings, please click here to complete the request form

SPICE 2nd Edition Training

SPICE 2nd Edition Training Flyer

This intermediate level course was developed to teach speech language pathologists and teachers of the deaf techniques for capitalizing on auditory information in children with hearing devices through the use of the CID SPICE second edition
auditory training curriculum. Topics include auditory development and methods to improve speech perception from detection
through comprehension of connected speech.

Date: November 9, 2022

For: Free for professionals employed in a Nebraska school district

Location: Lincoln, Omaha, Hastings, Norfolk, or Scottsbluff

Registration: Click here to register online by October 24th

SPICE for Life 2 Training

SPICE for Life 2 Training Flyer

This intermediate level workshop was designed to teach speech language pathologists and teachers of the deaf techniques to help children with hearing loss listen in everyday situations. Participants will learn an overview of skills including improving auditory memory and auditory comprehension listening with technology conversing listening in noise localizing sounds and more from the CID SPICE for Life 2.