Hello. My name is Miako Villanueva, and I am the president of the board for the Center for the Assessment of Sign Language Interpretation (CASLI). This is an exciting time for CASLI. RID established CASLI as an LLC in 2016, and charged CASLI with two primary tasks: 1) administration of the tests that RID was [...]
Image Description: Title slide contains the red and black CASLI Logo. Underneath the log the text says: Star G. Grieser Director of Testing. Updates – February 27, 2019”. White woman with short brown hair and dark blue shirt signing in front of white background. Hello, my name is Star Grieser and I am the Director [...]
Background: On January 1, 2016, the Certified Deaf Interpreter Performance (CDI-P) Exam was placed under moratorium by the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf. The Certified Deaf Interpreter Knowledge (CDI-K) Exam continued to be administered by RID. In July 2016, RID formed the Center for the Assessment of Sign Language Interpretation (CASLI, LLC) for the [...]
On June 9 and 10, 2018, CASLI's Testing Committee convened in Washington, DC for a two-day retreat to review the preliminary results of the Deaf Interpreter Job Task Analysis Survey and to discuss potential examination designs for both the Deaf interpreter and hearing interpreter "knowledge" and "performance" exams. The next step in the test development [...]
Here at CASLI, LLC, we are exceedingly pleased to welcome three new additions to our Testing Committee! Betti Bonni, MA, CDI, ASLTA-Professional Betti hails from the North side of Chicago (go Cubs!) and spent 10 years in the Chicago Public School system, mainstreamed BEFORE that term was coined. The school’s ‘accommodation’ was to place her [...]
The Center for the Assessment of Sign Language Interpretation (CASLI, LLC) is excited to announce the release of the Deaf Interpreter Job Task Analysis Survey. In March, we hosted a focus group of Deaf Interpreter Subject Matter Experts who compiled all the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) needed for a Deaf interpreter to successfully work in [...]
Hi there, my name is Star Grieser. I'm the director of testing for the Center for the Assessment of Sign Language Interpretation, or CASLI. We have a few announcements we want to share with you! First, about two or three weeks ago, in the third week of March, we hosted a focus group of Deaf [...]
