University HS Captures Gallaudet Academic Bowl Trophy

Congratulations to University High School of Irvine, California, for capturing the 2009 Academic Bowl trophy.

To learn more. visit the website at ab.gallaudet.edu.

Academic Bowl Nationals to be Webcast Live

The Academic Bowl 3rd place and championship matches will be webcast live on April 27, starting at 7:00 p.m. EDT. Want to meet your webcast hostess, Allie Pucciarelli? Watch her video here.

Be sure to bookmark the live webcast page. Go to the Academic Bowl website here.

Attending the CAID Conference at Gallaudet University this Summer?

Register now for one of these 1-credit courses held the weekend prior to the CAID conference.

The Council of American Instructors of the Deaf (CAID), co-hosted by the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center, will hold its national conference on June 22-26, 2009, at Gallaudet University.  The College of Professional Studies and Outreach is offering the following one-credit courses the weekend prior to the conference on June 20-21, from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm.

Legislation and Policy Affecting Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children. This course provides practitioners with an analysis of laws and policies that affect the education of deaf and hard of hearing children and ways they can be used to improve outcomes for these children. It incorporates a variety of activities to increase students’ knowledge of how to use these policies and laws to solve problems in their professional settings.  Instructor:  Barbara Raimondo, Esq.

ASL Discourse for Interpreters. This is an introductory course dealing with the grammatical and discourse-level structure of ASL with an emphasis on identifying features of ASL and addressing their relevance to interpretation.  Course topics include ASL grammar and syntax, turn taking, constructed action and constructed dialogue, and repair strategies.  This course is also offered for graduate credit.  Instructor:  Dr. Melanie Metzger.

Best Practices in Meeting the Needs of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Immigrant Students. This course addresses the growing demand from professionals working with Deaf and hard of hearing students who are immigrants, and/or children of immigrants. Topics for this preconference include communication and language development, working with immigrant families, older students with limited formal education, and instructional interventions and strategies for immigrant DHH students.  Instructor:  Dr. Barbara Gerner De Garcia.

For more information about these courses, contact Jacqueline Mann at jacqueline.mann@gallaudet.edu, or visit cpso.gallaudet.edu.

When:  June 20-21, 2009

Where:  Gallaudet University

Cost:  $260/professional studies credit or $660/graduate credit

(Cost includes a $30 processing fee)

Registration Deadline: June 6, 2009

For more information on the CAID conference and additional FREE training opportunities for CAID participation, visit caidconference.org.

Summer 2009 ASL Interpreter Education Courses

Are you beginning your studies or needing to maintain your certification?  Register now for one of the following interpreter education courses being offered this summer through the College of Professional Studies and Outreach:

PST 168-OL1 Video Interpreting:  What Is It?
Online  5/4-6/5/09 (1 credit) Instructor:  Mary Lightfoot

PST 170-01 Preparing for NAD/RID NIC Exam: Written
6/29-7/3/09  (1 credit)  Instructor:  Carol Tipton

PST 325-01 Introduction to Interpreting
6/22-7/3/09  (2 credits)  Instructor:  Randall Hogue

PST 326-01 Preparation for NAD/RID NIC Exam: Interview/ Performance
7/6-10/09  (1 credit)  Instructor:  Carol Tipton

PST 336-01 Introduction to Simultaneous Interpretation of ASL Monologues
7/13-17/09  (1 credit)  Instructor:  Steven Collins

PST 352-01 Introduction to VRS Interpreting
6/22-26/09  (1 credit)  Instructor:  Mary Lightfoot

PST 355-01 Conceptualization & Blending: Interpreting Anatomy & Physiology
7/6-10/09  (1 credit)  Instructor:  Miako Villanueva

ASL Discourse for Interpreters
6/20-21/09  (1 credit)  Instructor:  Melanie Metzger

Cost:  $230 per professional studies credit, plus a one-time $30 processing fee

Registration Deadline:  Three weeks prior to start date

For more information, contact Jacqueline Mann at jacqueline.mann@gallaudet.edu or visit summer.gallaudet.edu.

Academic Bowl Nationals Set for April 25-28, 2009

Battle of the Scholarly Sixteen: Teams Announced to Vie for 2009 Gallaudet University Academic Bowl Championship

PRESS RELEASE (APRIL 13, 2009) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gallaudet University is set to host the 13th annual National Academic Bowl competition, to be held April 25-28, 2008, on Gallaudet’s campus in Washington, D.C. Sixteen teams of deaf and hard of hearing students from across the United States will be arriving on Gallaudet’s Kendall Green campus on Saturday, April 25th. The first Academic Bowl match will take place on Sunday, April 26th, at 8:00 a.m. EDT.

This year’s national finalists include:

Southeast Region
White Station High School (Memphis, Tennessee)
Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind (St. Augustine, Florida)
South Plantation High School (Plantation, Florida)

Midwest Region
Indiana School for the Deaf (Indianapolis, Indiana)
Minnesota North Star Academy (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Michigan School for the Deaf (Flint, Michigan)

West Region
California School for the Deaf (Fremont, California)
Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
University High School (Irvine, California)

Mid-Atlantic/At-Large Region
Maryland School for the Deaf (Frederick, Maryland)
W.T. Woodson High School (Fairfax, Virginia)
Monroe #1 BOCES (Rochester, New York)

Northeast Region
New York State School for the Deaf (Rome, New York)
EDCO at Newton North High School (Newtonville, Massachusetts)
Rochester School for the Deaf (Rochester, New York)

New this year is the introduction of one wild card team selected to attend the nationals by winning a sudden-death 20-question quiz competition. The wild card team that will be competing at nationals is the Learning Center School for the Deaf of Framingham, Massachusetts.

Over the course of two days, each team will compete to reach the national final match, which takes place on Monday, April 27th, at 8:15 p.m. EDT. The awards ceremony will take place immediately following the championship match.

This year’s national competition will be webcast live by Gallaudet University’s media services department, beginning with the third-place match on Monday, April 27th, at 7:15 p.m. EDT. Be sure to check out all of the action on the web; bookmark the official live webcast page at ablive.gallaudet.edu.

For more information about the championship, visit the official Academic Bowl website at ab.gallaudet.edu.

About the Gallaudet University Academic Bowl

Gallaudet University established the Academic Bowl for Deaf and Hard of Hearing High School Students in 1997, with the goal of promoting academic competition among school teams. Quiz tournaments, in which teams of high school students compete against each other in local, regional, and national events, have gained wide popularity among high schools and colleges throughout the country.

At each regional Academic Bowl, teams compete against each other in answering questions on a wide variety of subjects. The first and second place winners from each of the five regions compete in the National Academic Bowl at Gallaudet University in late April.

Beginning with the 2007-2008 competition year, the Academic Bowl program is administered through the Gallaudet University College of Professional Studies and Outreach (CPSO). To learn more about CPSO, please visit us online at cpso.gallaudet.edu.

About Gallaudet University

Gallaudet University, federally chartered in 1864, is a bilingual, diverse, multicultural institution of higher education that ensures the intellectual and professional advancement of deaf and hard of hearing individuals through American Sign Language and English. Gallaudet prepares its graduates for career opportunities in a highly competitive, technological, and rapidly changing world. Visit Gallaudet online at gallaudet.edu.