Interpreters with Deaf Parents

2007

Quarterly Report from Lynnette Taylor to RID:

IDP REPORT 2007   4th QUARTER

Activities to date:

• E-mail newsletter went out in May
• Google Group list established for IDP members (announcements only
• Fundraising for the Community Forum ( so far we have raised $3,500.00)
• Planning for a community forum to be held August 4, 2007 from 1-6 pm . See enclosed flier.
• Planning for IDP Pre-conference- Betty Colonomos will provide a 2 day workshop for coda interpreters.
• Planning for an IDP powwow on Friday August 3Planning for an IDP social  on Sunday August 5
• Updated IDP website with all the current information WWW.IDP-RID.ORG
• Soliciting nominations for the new IDP slate - so far we have two written and one verbal.

Future Issues :

• The IDP link that is on the RID website is a dead site.
  
  We established a new web site http://IDP-RID.ORG,
  as well as a new Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/IDP-RID.           
   
  For the sake of continuity a mechanism should be put in place listing the webmaster and moderators of the chat groups, perhaps they could be kept in the MS files on the group and updated at the end of each chair’s term.

We welcome all of you to the community forum. It is a place to have an engaged and informed conversation about the shifting relationship with the field of interpreting and the Deaf community. A way to look at our history and ensure we are building a healthy future together. I believe this is my last report so-I thank you for the opportunity to work with all of you and look forward to doing more in the future.

Thank you for all of your hard work,
Lynnette Taylor

2006

Region 1 - Report TBA
July 21 - Providence, RI

Region 2 - Report TBA
June 30th - Arlington, VA

Region 3 - Report TBA
July 22 - Milwaukee, WI

Region 4 - Report TBA
August 4 - Bozeman, MT

Region 5 -
April 28 - Fairbanks, AK

Thank you Lewis Merkin, IDP member and DML chair for stepping in and running the meeting!

IDP held a forum during the Region V RID conference in Anchorage, Alaska on April 28, 2006. Approximately 10 people were in attendance including Bruce King, the Board Liason. Because several of the participants were new to IDP, time was spent explaining the purpose and nature of the SIGs in general and IDP in particular. We never got into a discussion on the Member Section issue. The main points that I recall coming up in conversation were the lack of respect IDP's feel from the general membership in regards to our wealth of knowledge of the language and culture and the lack of appropriate settings for codas to learn the interpreting process (ITP's often either dismiss CODAs or use them as examples. CODAs need a safe environment to learn in.) How can IDP address this?