NCRID Adopts a New Communication Policy for Board Meetings

As NCRID has members and stakeholders who are Deaf, deaf, hard of hearing, DeafBlind, and hearing, we seek to foster a welcoming, accessible, and equitable environment at our Board meetings. As such, the official assumed language for Board meetings and functions will be ASL. The Board reserves the right to adjust the primary language used at any specific meeting, for reasons including the preferred language of participants at that meeting. When needed, based on these language preferences, interpretation will be provided. The Board also reserves the right to make specific alternate arrangements at our state Conference and at workshops (for example, to best meet the educational and linguistic considerations of workshop presenters and requirements).

The above policy was drafted between the August and November 2022 Board meetings, and approved at the November 19, 2022 Board meeting.