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The 2010 NAD Youth Leadership Camp (YLC) has begun. The camp session runs from July 23rd until August 19th in Stayton, Oregon. Campers embark on a month-long journey - a journey of learning, personal growth, and empowerment. In addition, campers experience self-discovery, learn about self-identity, and understand various aspects about themselves.
Today, the announcements were made for the elected positions as follows:
New Board members elected: Margie English (Region 1), Richard McCowin (Region 2), Chris Patterson (Region 3) and Julie Rems Smario (Region 4)
The 2010-2012 Executive Board is as follows: Sheri Farinha (Secretary) and Michael Michner (Treasurer). Bobbie Beth Scoggins and Christopher Wagner were re-elected as President and Vice President.
The presenter, Melanie Nakaji, asks the question: how do we make doctors more deaf-friendly?
UCSD program enrolls medical students who are expected of the following:
- 8 quarters of ASL courses
- gave health talks in ASL
- attended gallaudet for four weeks
- met deaf friends at health talks
- attended deaf culture events
- practiced ASL using hte internet, videos, DVDs
- practiced ASL with Deaf staff
SB Morgaine held a workshop today discussing interpreter ethics in a social media environment. Everyone today has a bit of difficulty navigating the social media territory, but for interpreters, it’s even more difficult. Several questions she presented to audience were thought provoking, such as whether interpreters should use the popular social media application Foursquare, to announce their location, or whether interpreting agencies should be able to announce job openings.
Led by Rosaline Crawford (NAD), Cheryl Heppner (CAN) and Claude Stout (TDI), the open forum was designed to be receptive; to ask what the working group’s priorities should be.
The first audience member discussed about how High Definition captioning is different on Standard Definition television programming.
At the Senior Citizens’ Luncheon, Dr. Gertrude Galloway emceed, with Dr. Roz Rosen as the keynote speaker. Throughout her speech, Dr. Rosen cracked jokes about the lives of senior citizens, which the audience laughed at. Dr. Rosen told the story of when Bernard Bragg went to an arcade, and he found a shooting game. He began playing, laughing and cheering with his friend as he hit a target every time, and soon, a crowd gathered around him, watching. This went on for several minutes, until a little boy stepped forward, looked up at him then pressed the start button.
A popular workshop this morning was Greg Hlibok’s workshop on the civil rights for the Deaf. He moderated a panel of deaf attorneys who expressed their opinions on whether our work on civil rights are completed. The panel unanimously agreed that we have a long way to go.
Tayler Mayer interviews random people attending the 50th Biennial Conference in Philadelphia, PA. Attendees from all over the nation came for different reasons, but all share a common ground: National Association of the Deaf (NAD). Start planning now for the next NAD conference in Louisville, KY. It will be in the year 2012. Captions will come soon.
The College Bowl was held last night in the Grand Ballroom with a full house erupting in wild cheers every time their team got answers correctly. The teams were:
Captions are coming soon. Read the blog post about the Opening Ceremony
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