Registry Of Interpreters For The Deaf

Meetings: rid holds a biennial conference where members and stakeholders participate in the association's business meeting. Additionally, continuing education workshops, research presentations and other professional development opportunities for the interpreting profession are offered. In fy2024, rid hosted the biennial conference in july 2023, in baltimore, maryland.

Member services: rid supports practitioners in the sign language interpreting and transliterating field by offering an array of benefits, including professional practice papers, volunteer leadership opportunities, discounts on testing, conference and publications, and continuing education workshops. Member services also provides support and resources for rid's national affiliate chapter network. At the end of fy2024, there were 13,748 paid members across seven (7) membership categories.

Publications: rid press publishes select interpreting resources for practitioners in the field. These publications support professional development, provide exam preparation material, and spread awareness about the sign language interpreting profession. They include: an annual scholarly e-publication, the "journal of interpretation," which publishes academic research papers in the field of interpreting; and 16 published titles currently sold in the rid bookstore.

Ethical practices system (eps): the eps program provides an avenue of accountability for both consumers of interpreting services and fellow practitioners who have concerns about holders of rid's certification credential and their adherence to rid's code of professional conduct (cpc). It offers a conflict resolution service to the deaf and hearing communities and focuses on rebuilding relationships and engaging in dialogue to repair the trust between interpreters and the communities they serve. The eps is part of the triad of credentialed practitioner oversight processes established and followed by the association. In fy2024, there were 59 complaints received, plus 33 carry-over complaints from fy2023. A total of 92 cases were handled in fy2024.

Professional development (education): the certification maintenance program (cmp) serves as a mechanism to track earned continuing education units for the purpose of maintaining rid certification, ensuring practitioners maintain up to date interpreting skills. This program is part of the triad of credentialed practitioner oversight processes established and followed by the association. Credentialed practitioners must maintain their certification through a four-year cycle of earning continuing education hours, currently set at 8.0 units (80 contact hours.)

Other: other programs and services provided by rid include a communications department, a quarterly member publication called the views; a government affairs and public policy and advocacy program (ppa); and volunteer governance bodies, such as the board of directors and a slate of committees, task forces and councils. The communications department manages rid's social media engagement and public relations functions, and conducts communications with the membership and external stakeholders via newsletters, e-mail campaigns and press releases. Communications and views expenses $209,228.72. Including grants of $ 0. Revenue $12,442. The government affairs and public policy and advocacy program interacts with government agencies to monitor legislative developments and advocate for the interests of practitioners and end users. Ppa expenses $171,038.59. Including grants of $ 0. Revenue $219,930. Rid's volunteer governance bodies carry out the work of the association by providing high-level strategic governance and oversight of the association and engaging in fundraising and donor relations.

Casli: the center for the assessment of sign language interpretation (casli) is a single-member llc owned by rid and set up for the purpose of developing, maintaining, and administering interpreter knowledge and performance exams for the purpose of attaining rid certification. Casli's revenue primarily consists of exam registration fees. Including a contribution for expenses borne by rid of $285,816.04.