VR Professionals Self-Directed Course
Schawn Hardesty presents information about the Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals Self-Directed Course in American Sign Language.
This self-directed course was specifically designed for Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) personnel who are fluent in ASL. This ten-hour online, bilingual (ASL and written English) course provides an opportunity to learn more about the IRIS Project’s goals and approaches; resources that the IRIS Project and others developed to address and explore the demand for effective rural interpreter practitioners; and opportunities to consider the challenges and opportunities of rural interpreting and the deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind communities they work with.
Throughout the Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals Self-Directed Course, participants experienced the following:
- Exposure to the experiences of Deaf individuals who live in rural areas;
- Exposure to the experiences of interpreters who live in rural areas; and
- Exploration of the challenges and opportunities of rural interpreting.
Upon completion of this module, participants were able to:
- Identify personal language models.
- Identify key challenges presented to interpreters in rural settings.
- Identify key challenges faced by rural deaf community members.
- Identify opportunities for future collaboration with rural deaf and interpreting communities.
VR Professionals Curriculum
Feel free to review and use this Canvas course and curriculum materials!
Supporting documentation:
Curriculum materials are in a read-only format. Do you want to use this content in a Learning Management System (LMS)? Learn how to import it! Should you download the cartridge, you will need to create assignments and quizzes manually.
The University of Northern Colorado and the IRIS Project are not offering Continuing Education Units (CEU) processing for the content presented here. Should you be interested in RID CEUs, please contact any RID CMP Sponsor to inquire about a participant-initiated learning activity.
Please note that these resources are being made available to you as they were presented during the 2021-2026 grant cycle. Permission is granted to copy and disseminate this product for noncommercial educational purposes provided UNC-IRIS is credited as the source and referenced appropriately on any such copies. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Suggested citation: UNC-IRIS. (2024). Name of Resource. URL (if applicable).
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