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Future of RID Testing & Certification

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WILLIAM WRIGHT
10 years ago

I AM SUPPORT STAY INTERPRETER REAGAIN TRAINING INTERPRETER

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Carla Mathers
10 years ago Featured

I joined RID before I knew sign language because they told me I should and I trusted that. In 35 plus years since, I only now feel that trust wavering. I borrow NAD's slogan, 'Nothing about us, without us."

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Rebecca Hobgood
10 years ago

WE are RID and we have a right to know what is going on in OUR organization.

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Dana Arazi
10 years ago

The time has come to air our secrets and let the members know what's really going on.

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Dana Arazi
10 years ago

To the board, it's ok to make mistakes. We understand you are human and we do not expect perfection. I understand that to open the meetings to the public will release embarrassing and damning information. It's time to remove the proverbial band aide. The membership knows something is seriously wrong, and the secrets cannot be maintained much longer. Take the road less traveled and open the floodgates of information. We know it will be a very painful moment and perhaps the organization will not survive, but if we do make it through this, we will be stronger. We cannot begin to heal until we first reveal what's being hidden. If we stay on this path of closed doors with fear and lack of trust, you most certainly will govern the fall of RID. It's ok to make mistakes, so long as we don't continue making the same ones.

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Travis Mckinstry
10 years ago

Please!

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Erin Walper
10 years ago

I am a student member of RID.

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Lisa Sheets
10 years ago

Associate Member

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Leslie puzio
10 years ago

I am a certified voting member of an organization that is not keeping me 100% privy to the information being discussed.

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Linda King
10 years ago

AMEN!

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Margaret Gilmore
10 years ago

Please keep this process open to us. Unilateral decisions by the Board related to topics that may directly affect members' ability to work can be harmful to the profession, and to the members as well. WE are the organization, and without us, there is no RID.

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Kevin Lowery
10 years ago

RID needs to do something different. It's obviously the old paradigm is not working. Listen to your members! We're out there working int he trenches and we know and see what the needs are long before you do.

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Alana Calhoun
10 years ago

We vow to support if you vow to be transparent. To decide, we must understand all angles and perspectives. Please allow us to see.

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Emily Hart
10 years ago

Very well stated. RID's Board of directors, please hear this!

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Jodi Upton
10 years ago

100% agree. We need to improve communication

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Kent R. Oviatt
10 years ago

RID member in good standing.

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LaToya Childs
10 years ago

It's time for transparency, trust and respect.

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Julie Balassa
10 years ago

I think Regan said everything I would have said. Please respect your membership by opening your discussion to us and lettings have input. Thank you.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Please keep us informed on what is going on. It affects us all.

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Andrea K Smith
10 years ago

"As doctors often make the most intractable of patients, interpreters are often the least mindful of communicators." (Leahy, 2015) Please lead our organization forward with mindful, open, and engaged communication with the membership and with our stakeholder groups.