RID Membership
Certification
Acronyms
Historical Dates
Miscellaneous
100
This membership category is limited to individuals who hold any type of certification
What is certified?
100
These two organization are the only two national deaf organizations in North America.
What is 1) The register of interpreters for the deaf 2) The association of visual language interpreters of Canada
100
CSC
What is comprehensive skills certificate?
100
In this year, all hearing applicants must have a BA degree and all deaf applicants must have an AA degree.
What is 2012?
100
The original name of RID.
What is National registry of professional interpreters and translators for the deaf?
200
This membership category is for individuals who are enrolled full time in an interpreter education program
What is student?
200
A certification given in 1972 to deaf individuals who successfully completed the interview and 2 sign-to-english evaluations.
What is reverse skill certification?
200
MCSC
What is masters comprehensive skills certificate?
200
In this year, RID began to evaluate sign language interpreters.
What is 1972?
200
This amount of time must pass before members of RID can elect a new board.
What is 2 years?
300
This membership category is for organizations, companies, and schools who wish to demonstrate their support of the organization.
What is organizational?
300
In order to come this type of interpreter an individual must typically have a bachelor degree and live in a country for 2 years.
What is spoken language interpreter?
300
SC:PA
What is specialist certificate: performing arts?
300
By this year, the Americans with Disabilities Act was implemented in order to raise minimum standards for interpreters in educational settings
What is 1991?
300
This book let to the formal recognition of american sign language as a fully rule-governed language.
What is the dictionary of ASL on linguistic principles?
400
This membership category is for individuals who are supportive of the goals of the organization, but are not interpreters.
What is supporting?
400
certificates expire after this amount of time, unless the holder took a second evaluation or successfully completed a specialist certificate.
What is 5 years
400
CDI-P
What is certified deaf interpreter privisional?
400
The year that interpreters came from across the United States for a meeting and established Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf.
What is 1964?
400
To pass the current RID written exam, you must get this amount right.
What is 98?
500
This membership category is for those individuals who are working as interpreters, but have yet to become certified.
What is associate?
500
Speech production, speech reading, and transliteration are 3 of the 6 context areas of this written exam.
What is oral transliteration?
500
OIC: V/S
What is oral interpreter certificate: visible to spoken?
500
By this year, all applicants must have a bachelors degree for an RID certification.
What is 2016?
500
The college that RID was founded at.
What is Ball State Teacher’s College ?