Find CEH Opportunities

It Starts with You

What kinds of courses, presentations, and events should you consider as part of your continuing education as a cued language transliterator? Before looking in more detail at the requirements for the Certification Maintenance Program, start by thinking about what you’d like to take:

• Consider your individual education needs. Which of your skills or knowledge areas do you think would benefit from instruction or mentorship? Are there areas where your skills have declined?

• Think about your interests. Learning should be enjoyable. Are there topics relevant to cued language transliteration that you’d like to explore in more detail?

• Identify your resources. Courses vary in cost, length, and the time and frequency of delivery. No one knows your obligations better than you do. Find courses that fit your time and budget.

Finding Appropriate Training

When a course is submitted to the TECUnit for CEH approval, it is evaluated in several ways including:

• Relevance to cued language transliteration. Obviously, courses on the CLT Code of Conduct, transphonation, and Auditory Environmental Stimuli relate to our profession. However, many other topics may also be relevant. The following is a list of possible related topics. It is not intended to be comprehensive nor meant to direct your priorities for professional development. Each linked topic connects to an internet search, but your individual results will vary and have not been vetted by the TECUnit. Courses you discover through these links are not pre-approved. This is meant to be supportive: American Sign Language, education, interpreting, phonology, foreign languages, psychology, bilingualism, speech production, deafness, language development, linguistics, language disorders, ethics, learning and instruction, learning disabilities, cochlear implants, written language, reading, and literacy development. This list offers just a few of the possible subjects that might be relevant to a cued language transliterator.

• Level of Instruction. CEH-approved training must be at a sufficient level for a CMP participant. Advanced courses in expressive or receptive cued language instruction would likely qualify. More beginner-level courses might also be appropriate for related topics like American Sign Language.

• Quality of Instruction. Courses/events must be taught/presented by individuals with appropriate credentials, backgrounds, education, and/or experience. Reviewers ensure the event was designed with clear, thoughtful, achievable, and appropriate learning outcomes supported by interactive activities, and are assessed in some way to ensure successful completion.

What Types of Events are Not Approved

Few applications for CEH approval have been rejected. Sponsors and CMP participants generally vet training well before submitting it. However, while some types of training activities may be beneficial, they may not qualify for CEHs. These include:

Self-guided Activities. All CEH Events are delivered under the direction of a host organization who ensures learning objectives are met and that the CMP participant successfully completed training. Individual and acitivies conducted with peers (e.g., cue reading on Zoom) would be approved. UAgain, this is not to say that these activities are not beneficial–only that they do not qualify as structured, professional continuing education.

Social Events. Many social events for cuers yield benefits (e.g., networking, cue reading practice). However, these would not be approved for continuing education.

Unstructured Practice. A cueing game night held as a workshop for cued language transliterators would not be approved unless it had clear objectives and was delivered in such a way that instructors provided systematic assessment and feedback.

Events Unrelated to the Profession. The TECUnit accepts a wide variety of topics associated with language and education. Business training that might be beneficial for a transliterators practice on topics like accounting, advertising, personal computing, etc. would not be approved for continuing education credit.

Where to Look for Appropriate Training

In recent years, we’ve witnessed significant growth in the number of online courses related to cued language and cued language transliteration. This has expanded access for CLTs allo over the country to many more Sponsored Events than ever before. These Sponsored Events are required to include the Approved for TECUnit CEHs logo.

The ability for CLTs to request CEHs for Unsponsored Events has opened up millions of hours of in-person and online instruction on a variety of topics. Internet searches for “continuing education” and a topic/ skill of interest are likely to yield many options for you to investigate to determine if they fit your criteria and those of the TECUnit.

CEH Providers

Organizations may subscribe to become TECUnit CEH Providers and offer coursework that is pre-approved for the Certification Education Hours. Organizations submit coursework and instructor qualifications for approval. Please be aware that CEH Providers may offer other courses/events that have not yet been submitted for CEH-approved. Always look for the CEH-Approved logo on advertising before registering. If you are unsure whether a course/event is CEH approved, contact the sponsoring organization.

Approved Recurring Events

One advantage of an approved recurring event is that it may be offered at any time without going through the review process again. This means that CEH Providers may be able to offer events for CLTs on-demand. This is entirely up to the CEH Provider. The TECUnit does not provide, plan, or recommend training.

Language Matters, Inc. offers CEH opportunities for several courses in their Cued Language Transliterator Professional Education Series (CLTPES). For a list of approved courses or upcoming dates, contact Lauren Pruett at lauren@languagemattersinc.com.

The Académie Internationale Soutenant les Adaptations de «Cued» (AISAC) assembles cueing experts from around the word to expand the catalogue of cued languages worldwide. The mission of AISAC is to ensure that every language is visually accessible to individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. Nationally certified cued language transliterators who assist AISAC in the development or revision of a Cued Speech system may earn CEHs for research and collaboration with academy members. Those with specialized knowledge of other languages or cueing systems are welcomed and encouraged to join AISAC’s Ambassadors Council, which serves as an advisory board.

The TECUnit welcomes collaborations to increase access to CEH-approved coursework. If you know of organizations that seems appropriate, encourage them to consider becoming a CEH Provider.

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