Saturday, August 28th...back by popular demand... A repeat of March's Mentorship Program workshop, held in conjunction with the general membership meeting. Where: Central Vermont Hospital, Berlin, VT When: August 28th, 10 am - 2 pm (lunch included)with meeting to follow from 2-4 pm. Details will come this summer...keep your eyes peeled!

June 2004 SHHH Conference 19th Annual Conference June 10 - 13, 2004 "Hearing in the Heart Land with Family" Omaha Hilton Omaha, NE www.hearingloss.org

NAOBI, 2004 June 24 - 28, 2004 Marriot Airport Hotel Cincinnati, OH

Alexander Graham BellAssociation of the Deaf June 25-June 29, 2004 "California Dreamin'... Hear The Magic in Our Voices!" Anaheim Marriott and Hilton Anaheim Anaheim, CA www.agbell.org

July 2004 AVLIC 2004 July 6 - 10, 2004 Coast Plaza Hotel & Suites 1763 Comox St. Vancouver, BC www.wavli.com

47th Biennial NAD Conference July 6-10 2004 Kansas City, MO www.nad.org

2004 RID Region IV Conference July 14-17, 2004 Renaissance Hotel Oklahoma City, OK http://okrid.org/regconf.html

2004 RID Region III Conference July 20 - 25, 2004 Westin Hotel Indianapolis, IN www.icrid.org

National CODA Conference July 29 - August 4, 2004 Waikiki Marriott Resort Honolulu, Hawaii www.coda-international.org

Intertribal Deaf Council, IDC July, 2004 Washington State August 2004

2004 NBDA Conference August 1 - 8, 2004 Doubletree Hotel 237 South Broad St. Philadelphia, PA 19107 Betty Henderson, Chair www.nbda.org

September 2004 2004 National ALDA Conference

September 1 - 5, 2004 Radisson Hotel on Lake Champlain Burlington, VT

2004 CIT Conference September 29 - October 3, 2004 Gallaudet University Kellogg Center Washington DC www.cit-asl.org

October 2004 MMIA Huge medical conference, signed and spoken languages both, that will take place on Friday and Saturday, October 29 and 30, 2004. Contact joy.connell@dmh.state.ma.us

November 2004 ASHA American Speech & Hearing Association November 18 - 20, 2004 Philadelphia, PA December 2004

2005 ASLTA TBA 2005

AADB TBA 2005

ADARA May 25 - 30, 2005 Sheraton Four Points Hotel Orlando, FL

June 2005 DWU Deaf Women United June 25 - 29, 2005 Ellicott City, MD

ASDC American Society for Deaf Children July 9 - 13, 2005 Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf Pittsburg, PA

RID, 2005 July 10 - 15, 2005 Marriott Rivercenter 101 Bowie St. San Antonio, TX www.rid.org

TDI Telecommunications for the deaf July 2005 (TBA) TDI BOD reviewing Spring or Fall

2006 National Asian Deaf Congress Hawaii

Postponed - new date TBA 2007

World Federation of the Deaf 2007 Madrid, Spain

Vermont RID Membership

Vermont RID Scholarship Guidelines & Application

VTRID Meeting
March 20, 2004
Central VT Hospital
Start: 1:35 pm

Officers Present: Amy Williamson -Loga-President, Kristal Hier-VP and Secretary, Lisa Bixler-Chair of Mentorship Comm. and Elizabeth Bjerke-Chair of Scholarship Comm.

Members present: Ingrid Nevar, Christine Berube, Gia Amorese, Julie Albetski, Barb Walker, Eliza Goodhue, Karen Muller-Harder, Lynette Reep, Jen Raney, Carol Young, Pauline Frazel, Keri Reed, Linda St. Cyr, Eric Phelps, Leani Arnold, Nora Kennedy, Lianne Moccia, Karen Todd, Cara Sachs.

REPORTS:

President's report-Amy:
? Mentorship Program rocks!
? Amy has been involved with deaf task force meetings for AHS. She has also been involved with the Deaf coalition in VT for people who provide services to the Deaf and hard of hearing. Anyone interested in attending these meeting with her or in her place please contact her.
? We are trying to establish a by-laws comm. Ours were last revised 1990. Barb Walker volunteered to take the lead on this matter; any other interested parties contact a board member or Barb.
? Region I conference in RI 2006.Other details TBA. VTRID is coordinating the awards and more details on what that entails will be forthcoming. We also contributed our $500 seed money for the conference.
? VIEWS.VTRID has an article in VIEWS almost every month so keep an eye out for that in the future. v ? Total members: 60! Most ever!

Treasurer's Report-David (not present):

Mentorship Committee Report-Lisa:
? Mentorship Program this year is going VERY well, breakdown looks like this:
27 participants
8 Certified people
5 new members for VTRID from that group
$3705 from registrations
$1500 from NU
$5205 budgeted
So...we will not have to use seed monies passed to us by the previous chairperson for Mentorship Program.
? Lianne: NU annual mentorship is in the planning stages probably will be about "peer mentoring", which is a program from MA developed by Laurie Shaffer and Wendy Watson.

Scholarship Report-Elizabeth:
? Not much happening one request was forwarded to the mentorship comm.,
? Money left: $250

VIRS-Mary(via E-mail):
? We are looking for a Deaf person to join our board, so we have one opening at this time, AND may have other openings in the fall. (possibly for interpreters.) There are 9 members on the advisory board, three interpreters, three members of the Deaf community and three people representing organizations who utilize VIRS.
? We need more photos of interpreters for the website and new ones of working interpreters, so please if you do not have a picture up there yet and/or you have any photos of yourself working, please send them to VIRS, digital is best, but we do have a scanner. (I may have Julie bring up our digital camera so anyone who needs a picture taken, can!
? WORKSHOPS: I am waiting to hear back from Linda Gill regarding the medical workshop Joan Pellerin had told us about, so hoping she sends it to me and will forward it to you.
? Then there is the Shawn Broderick from Gallaudet who Theresa Smith recommended. His fees are as follows: $900 for the workshop which includes Friday night 6 to 9 pm, then Sat. 9 to 5 with one hour lunch break, then motel transportation and meals covered by VTRID. This is also for a medical workshop. He has been a core faculty instructor of American Sign Language Interpreting School of Seattle from Jan 1992 to the present.
? We are averaging 120 requests per month right now, up 12% from last year. And those requests are up 38% in the number of interpreting hours per request. (This has to do with College classes, ongoing educational interpreting requests and SRS Requests.)

Library Report-Lisa (for Janet): ? Nothing new happening, our library is still there and still full of great resources.
? Kristal will send the list out again in the next e-letter and Amy will check out the possibility of putting the list on VIRS website.

OLD BUSINESS:
Workshops/Professional Dev Comm. -Nora:
? The Comm. needs members! No volunteers.
? There is $800 avail for this comm. work from NU that will disappear in Sept.
? Brainstorming for workshop ideas:
1. Lynette reported that MJ Bienvenu will be coming in the fall, dates unsure right now, but will be geared to a wide range of skill levels. Lynette is volunteering to help out Nora for MJs workshop.
2. Lynette reported that Jim Pontbriany who works for Social Security would love to do a workshop for interpreters re: "the system" and its' jargon.
3. Julie reported that Cat Bren-Bear had done a workshop on Public Speaking for interpreters, and we could look into that for VTRID.
4. Lynette suggested maybe doing another feedback group session like today, due to the fact that the response for today's activity was very positive and others expressed interest in being involved in this kind of group "talk about your work" kind of day.
5. Lianne reported that Pam Whitney will be coming to MA and we can find out more about her presentation and if its something we want to host, as we had discussed in the past possibly asking her to provide a workshop here.
6. Eric suggested we should have an event and incorporate the Deaf community more with a Fri night event and then have workshop on Sat.
7. Eliza has access to a place where we could have a kind of retreat.
8. Kristal suggested combining the VTRID fun meeting with group video feedback.

? Decisions on Workshops:
1. Videotape feedback workday set for Saturday Aug 28 at Central VT Hospital in Berlin, 10am-4 pm. feedback in groups 10-2 and VTRID fall meeting 2-4pm. Mentorship comm. will take responsibility for coordinating this event. Any comments or questions for that workshop let Lisa or Kristal know. Leani Arnold and Stephanie are willing to help out with this. Barb would like to have legal interprets get together this day and will work with us coordinating this part.
2. Lynette and Nora will work on coordinating the workshop with Jim Pontbriany, from Social Security.
3. Lynette, Barb and Nora will work on The MJ workshop for the fall.

Educational Interpreter Guidelines-Amy:
The Educational Interpreter Guidelines have just been sent out again to all members for consideration and feedback. Ed Peletier, director of the VT Center for the Deaf and hard of hearing has some revisions for the document and is working with the DOE and wants a "united front" from the Deaf Community, interpreters and schools to DOE. Problems with the current document are confusing language and such. Please read it and give us your feedback so that we can pass it on to the powers that be:)

Evidentiary Privilege-Barb:
This bill gives the deaf person the right to prevent the interpreter who worked for them from testifying in court.
House bill passed. Added a summer study comm. to decide if it should include spoken language interpreters. Now it is in the senate and their version may be different. Barb was unsure about where the governor stands on this issue.
A copy of this bill will be included in the next e-letter.

Yahoo Group-Kristal:
Kristal explained about the list and if people are having problems with it please let her know.
Any info members want to go out to all members send it to Kristal or David or vermontrid@yahoo.com and we will get it out to the whole list.

NEW BUSINESS

VTRID Fun-Amy:
Any interest for a "fun" day for members at the June meeting or instead of the June meeting?? People are definitely interested in this but decided to stick with the June 7th date, as there were no volunteers to plan it:)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

? Passed RID written test: Gia, Kris Oliver, Joe Loga, Eliza Goodhue, Linda St. Cyr, Christine Berube
? Passed RID CI: Karen Todd
Elizabeth: Austine School camp director is open to having people stop by to be involved in a non-threatening atmosphere. Camp is July 5 to Aug. 6. Tammi Trowell is director, and can be contacted at 802.258.9502.
It was discussed and decided that Kristal will forward relevant info from the MassDeafTerp list re: workshops etc to members via our Yahoo group list serve.

Adjourned 3:02 pm

This is the Evidentiary Priviledge Bill as it passed the House
>H.79
Introduced by Representatives Dostis of Waterbury, Vincent of Waterbury and
Milkey of Brattleboro
Referred to Committee on
Date:
Subject: Court procedure; evidence; privilege for communications made to interpreters for hearing impaired persons Statement of purpose: This bill proposes to establish an evidentiary privilege to prohibit the disclosure of communications made to interpreters by hearing impaired persons. The privilege also prohibits the disclosure of information obtained by an interpreter as a result of serving as an interpreter for a hearing impaired person. AN ACT RELATING TO ESTABLISHING AN EVIDENTIARY PRIVILEGE TO PROHIBIT THE > DISCLOSURE OF COMMUNICATIONS MADE TO INTERPRETERS BY HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont: Sec. 1. 12 V.S.A. § 1615 is added to read: § 1615. PRIVILEGE FOR COMMUNICATIONS MADE TO INTERPRETERS BY HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS
(a) As used in this section, "Hearing impaired person" means any person who has such difficulty hearing, even with amplification, that he or she cannot rely on hearing for communication.
(b) A hearing impaired person has the privilege to refuse to disclose and to prevent another person from disclosing:
(1) a communication made by the hearing impaired person to an interpreter acting in his or her capacity as an interpreter for the person; and
(2) any information obtained by the interpreter as a result of serving as an interpreter for the hearing impaired person.
(c) If more than one hearing impaired person is using the same interpreter, each hearing impaired person may assert the privilege for his or her own communications.
(d) A hearing impaired person may waive a privilege held under this section if the waiver is made knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently, and is not subject to alternative interpretations resulting from the person's habits and patterns of communications.

Region I Conference to happen in 2006. Rhode Island will host.

More information will be forthcoming as we receive it. For now we are in need of volunteers for these committees...the committees are listed on the left with the chapter or individual that is the chair of the committee listed. If it says, "open" then the committee does not yet have a chair. Might you be interested in serving your National Organization? If so, contact Amy Williamson-Loga at williamson_loga@hotmail.com

Registration - CNYRID
Student Representatives - NYC Metro
Business Meeting - PARID & Patty Clark and some GVRRID pals
Accommodations - Rosa Norberg, Jenn Howes & Susan Graesser (as
individuals)
Program Book & Advertising - Rosa Norberg CEUs - PARID
Child Care - will this be offered?
Entertainment - Sarah Wicks (CTRID), Caleb Shulman (GVRRID)
Exhibits - Rosa Norberg and Jenn Howes
Finance Underwriting - OPEN
Fundraising (pre-conference) - OPEN
Silent Auction - MERID
Interpreting - Marc Holmes & Amy Williams-Loga
Motions - Patty Clark and Region 1 Secretary
Program/Workshops - OPEN
Publicity - Joanne Jackowski and Sarah Wicks are working on this
Tech/Media - OPEN
Transportation - Jenn Howes and Rosa Norgberg
Recording Secretary * - OPEN
Awards - VTRID