Locating Study Materials

 

PARID Swap Program

Signs of Development DVD and CD software available for loan to PARID members. If CEUs are needed, a fee is assessed by Signs of Development.

 

Access PA Info

Borrow library materials from across Pennsylvania.

 

PaTTAN Library

Both books and videotapes are available for free, six-week loan periods.

Order online or call: 1-800-360-2782

The collection is called the Educational Interpreter Resource Library

 

Hiram G. Andrews Center Library (the ODHH collection)

http://library.parid.org – Searchable database of ODHH library – compliments of PARID

 

Both books, videotapes and DVDs are available for free loan. Over four hundred titles in the collection, including the NIC, CI/CT and CDI study materials.

The entire collection is available through Access PA. See the Access PA link above for additional guidance to using Access PA and your local library to borrow these materials for free.

 

Contact person is currently Christal Ferrance, the librarian from the Hiram G. Andrews Center

Email: cferrance@state.pa.us

 

Medical Interpreting WebsiteMaintained by the CATIE Center ITP

A valuable site that has excellent videos related to medical interpreting. If you do medical interpreting you owe it to your consumers to spend some time reviewing the materials located here.

 

Captioned Media Program

A free-loan federal program administered by the National Association of the Deaf. Video/DVD/CD-Rom depositories are maintained around the country. You register online and receive an account number. You can then borrow materials for free. This program not only has captioned educational videos, useful for Deaf mainstreamed school students, but they have many videos about learning sign language and interpreting, including WWWorkshops from Signs of Development.

 

Purchasing Study Materials

Both new and used RID texts are available from online stores. There are also online stores for purchasing videos. PARID does not endorse any of these sites. They are listed here for informational purposes only.

 

Texts

www.campusbooks.com

 

www.amazon.com

 

www.half.ebay.com/textbooks

 

www.addall.com

 

Tip: Before purchasing online, check the seller’s satisfaction rating.

 

New Videos and Texts

 

www.harriscomm.com

 

www.signmedia.com

 

www.dawnsign.com

 

www.buttepublications.com

 

www.handandmind.org