Applications are now open for the 2020 DeafBlind
Interpreting Institute (DBII) cohort. We have piloted this program with the
2018 & 2019 cohorts and revised and improved our training and are ready for
2020! Now is the time to apply!
The call for applications will close on Sunday, February 2nd
at 9PM PST.
Check out the 2020 DBII webpage for full details! https://www.dbinterpreting.org/
There is no other intensive, immersion opportunity preparing
interpreters to work with DeafBlind folks and their language. We are grateful
to the amazing DeafBlind leaders, teachers, trainers, and mentors who are
partnering with DBI to make this program and its content a reality!
Under the direction of DeafBlind leaders and DBI staff,
cohort participants will learn more about DeafBlind culture and protactile
language through a 100-hour intensive experience, including an 8-week online
learning community, 1-week onsite for protactile language immersion, and
10+-hours of service and applied learning (induction) in the participant's home
community with DeafBlind individuals.
DBI has already received a high volume of interest in this
training and we can only admit a total of 64 participants for the 2020 cohorts
(32 in each cohort), so be sure to SPREAD THE WORD and ENCOURAGE FOLKS TO APPLY!
Image description: A white female with long brown hair, wearing sunglasses sits in the midst of a group of interpreters who are all reaching out in protactile space to indicate they are following her instruction.
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