Linda Stauffer
Linda Stauffer, M.Ed., CSC, OTC has enjoyed more than twenty-five years of professional experience in the deafness-related fields of education, rehabilitation and interpretation. She is an Assistant Professor and Project Coordinator for the RSA Region VI Interpreter Education Project federal grant. Ms. Stauffer holds the RID Comprehensive Skills Certificate (CSC) and has been certified by RID since 1981. She has been teaching in the UALR Interpreter Education Program since January 1986.
Ms. Stauffer is pursuing her Ph.D. in Rehabilitation (University of Arkansas) and holds an M.Ed in Deafness Rehabilitation with an emphasis in Independent Living Skills (1987, University of Arkansas), a B.S. degree in Deaf Education (1978, College of Pennsylvania). She taught at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, coordinated interpreter services in New York City, worked as a Research Assistant at the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Persons who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (RT-31), and has many years of experience as a community interpreter. In addition to her published articles on visualization and transliteration, she co-authored Identifying Standards for the Training of Interpreters for Deaf People (1990) and co-edited the 1990 Resource Guide for Interpreter Education. She is author of numerous university course and workshop curricula for interpreter educators and served as co-editor of the CIT NEWS for 14 years. Additionally, Ms. Stauffer conducts interpreter workshops across the country on a regular basis.
Ms. Stauffer is well known for her service to the interpreting profession. She served on the national Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc. (RID) Board of Directors as the Region IV Representative, 1995-2002. She has also served on the Board of Directors of both the Arkansas chapter of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (ARID) and the Conference of Interpreter Trainers (CIT). Ms. Stauffer is the 1992 recipient of the Mary Stotler Award presented jointly by the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc. (RID) and the Conference of Interpreter Trainers (CIT). She was awarded the 1994 UALR College of Education’s Faculty Excellence Award for Public Service. In 1996, she was named Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.