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Message from CAID President, Kathy Obenhaus
Dear Colleagues,
The Council of American Instructors of the Deaf looks foward toward our future with much anticipation. You will have recently heard and seen the CAID is presenting its first national convention since 1999 in Reno, Nevada this coming June 2007. Please see our conference website at www.caidconference.org. So now you will perhaps be thinking, "Well, at long last CAID is back to life!" While we are thrilled to be provinding bi-ennial conferences again, we want you to know that we have been alive and active since 1999.
CAID has been working to keep in touch with the national scene, working with the Council on Education for the Deaf (CED), working with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Alliance (DHHA), working the Joint Committee on Infant Screening (JCIH), working with California Educators of Deaf/Hard of Hearing (CAL-ED), and working to retire a debt to the American Annals of the Deaf (AAD).
I am happy to report that these quiet workings have been met with success. CAID is a viable representative for educators of students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing along with all the entities mentioned above. We are ALIVE and ACTIVE!
We thank all of those committed individuals who have remained supportive and active during these years of hard work. We thank those Council members who worked before us and those who continue to work with us. I would like to take a moment to emphasize to you, our members, how vital you as an individual are to the ongoing success of CAID.
Reistablishing the bi-ennial conferences is only one of projects slated for the next months and years. We continue to work with CED to encourage diverisity within our work force. We are working to revise our website so that you can pay your membership dues online. We want to add to CAL-ED our State Affiliate Members for any and all state professional organizations. We are committed to publishing our newsletter NewsN'Notes four times yearly.
We hope that you will continue to show your support by joining CAID as an individual professional or through your state professional organization. We very much look forward to seeing you this summer in Reno at our "Educating Millenial Students: Characteristics, Values, Learning Styles". Bring your families as well and discover our nation's "wild west" and how you can improve the services you provide to our students.
Kathy Obenhaus, M.S.
CAID President/SWIM SIG Council Representative |
