WRIEC - Who We Are
Pauline Annarino & CM Hall
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| Pauline Annarino MS, CSC, CRS, NAD V, is the Project Director of the WRIEC at El Camino College. Ms. Annarino, holds an M.S. in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and has served as the RSA Region IX RITC Project Director, former Director of Program Development at the Greater Los Angeles Council on Deafness and an interpreter educator. She was a key participant in the design of the NAD Sign Language Interpreter Assessment, Chair of the Sign Language Legal Certification Test for the Judicial Council of California, and a member of the NAD/RID Task Force Test Development Committee. | |
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Dipte Patel, MA, CRC, Director of the Special Resource Center at El Camino College in Torrance, CA where she has worked since 2001. Prior to El Camino, Ms. Patel worked at University of California, Los Angeles and with non-profit agencies in Florida and Georgia promoting employment for persons with disabilities. Ms. Patel holds a Masters of Arts degree in Rehabilitation Counseling and is also a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor. |
| WRIEC at WOU | |
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Cheryl Davis Ph.D., Principal Investigator for the WRIEC, is Director of the Regional Resource Center on Deafness. She holds a master’s degree in Rehabilitation Counseling: Deafness and a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon (1992) in school to community transition. Dr. Davis serves on the State Rehabilitation Council, is a tenure track associate professor in the Special Education Division, and is the project director for WOU’s RSA-funded four-week summer intensive orientation to deafness rehabilitation program. |
| CM Hall, Ed.M., is the Project Coordinator of the WRIEC at Western Oregon University. She holds a Bachelors in the ASL/English Interpreting Program from Western Oregon University and prior to that completed Western's one-year interpreter training program. CM holds a Masters in Education from Oregon State University in College Student Services Administration. CM has worked in the K-12 and various post-secondary environments as a staff interpreter, and has considerable experience with platform and Deaf-Blind interpreting. She is a member of RID and her local Oregon chapter, and works as a member of the Discover Interpreting, Linguistic and Cultural Diversity, and Mentoring workteams within the National Consortium. She holds a 4.3 EIPA and is hoping to take the NIC Interview and Peformance Exam in November 2009. Currently, CM is the Vice-President of the Oregon RID chapter as well as the Chair of BLeGIT, RID's LGBT Member Section. | |
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Lyra Behnke, is the WRIEC Student Worker. Lyra is a native Oregonian, but of many locations since childhood. She graduated from California School for the Deaf, Fremont. Lyra attended different community colleges before finally deciding on settling in Portland. There she decided to transfer to Western Oregon University to complete her Bachelors degree in ASL Studies and a minor in Business. When living in California, she had the wonderful opportunity to work for an interpreting agency for four years. While there, Lyra managed the Deaf bookstore adjacent to the interpreting agency offices. She also assisted with the bookkeeping. Her experiences being Deaf and working at the interpreting agency led her to decide to get her degree in ASL Studies at Western. Lyra now works at WRIEC as a student worker at Western Oregon University in between her classes. She oversees the Lending Library and assists with other projects. |
Contact Information
| El Camino College | Western Oregon University |
Pauline Annarino, Project Director |
CM Hall, Project Coordinator |
Special Resource Center |
College of Education |
Region Interpreter Training Consortium |
Division of Special Education |
Regional Resource Center on Deafness |
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ASL/English Interpreting Program |
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Teacher Preparation: Deaf Education |
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Rehabilitation Counseling/Rehabilitation Counseling:Deafness |
