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: 

• February 13, 2023
• March 13, 2023
• April 17, 2023
• May 8, 2023

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 Flyer

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

Upcoming Dates: 

• 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 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)
• Assessment & Pattern Identification (8 week, 16 hour module)
• Fostering Fuller Inclusion Through Visual-Spatial Strategies (6 week, 12 hour module)

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

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.

Date: March 1, 2023

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