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The NAD-RID National Council on Interpreting is coming
up with a more descriptive version of the Code of Ethics.
Current Code of Ethics
Proposed Code of Ethics
NAD and RID join hands in partnership for testing and certification!
National Association of the Deaf, Inc. and Registry of Interpreters for
the Deaf, Inc. formed the National Council of Interpreting (NCI)
to, among other things, develop a National Interpreter
Certification (NIC) test. This new test will replace the current RID generalist
test (CI and CT). The NIC written test will be available soon and applications
are being accepted now. The NIC interview and performance tests will be
available in 2005.
History
In
November of 1993, the Massachusetts Association of the Deaf and Massachusetts
RID held a joint conference. Each invited their association's president to
attend and speak as keynote speakers. Both agreed.
For a
number of years prior to this event, relations between the two organizations
could be described as strained and cool, at best.
Prior
to the meeting, the two presidents, Janet Bailey of RID and Ben Soukup of NAD,
had the unscheduled opportunity to talk when they sat in a Boston traffic jam
(which is still in place, by the way) for hours. The two presidents shared the
keynote presentation during which an agreement was made to find a way in which
the NAD and RID could work together toward a common goal.
Shortly after that meeting, the NAD-RID Task Force on the National Interpreter
Crisis was established. On January 27, 1994, representatives from both
organizations met at the RID National Office.
In
June of 1996, the Task Force agreed to develop a new joint certification
instrument for interpreters/transliterators. The Board of Directors of both
organizations approved this initiative. A test development committee was formed
and work began in 1997 on the concept for the new test. Members of the Task
Force and their respective organizations continued to search for outside funding
for this effort, which was expected to require between $750,000 and one million
dollars to complete.
That
effort came to fruition several months ago when the Arizona Commission for the
Deaf and Hard of Hearing awarded a sizable contract toward the test development
effort. Now, work can move forward at a much more rapid pace.
In the
meantime, the Task Force has changed its name to the National Council on
Interpreting (NCI). The Council wants to expand its agenda to numerous other
areas related to interpreting and to involve a number of other organizations in
this examination of interpreting issues. Other groups have been invited and will
be invited to participate in this dialogue.
NAD
and RID have come a long way since the angst and difficulties of the past. Each
organization, from the highest levels of leadership, fully supports the efforts
of the other in many different ways. We anticipate the relationship of these two
organizations to only grow stronger as time passes and more mutual efforts come
to pass.
On
November 27, 2002 NAD and RID Enter into partnership to support NAD Certified
Interpreters.
For
more information go to
RID
NCI
or
NAD NIC.
You may click on the links below for the NAD or RID websites.
(Note: the above
excerpt
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