February 2nd and 3rd

Health & Sciences Building, 850 Brisack Rd. Spartanburg, SC 29303

SC RID Conference 2024 will be hosted at Spartanburg Community College.

Join us Friday and Saturday for workshops featuring LaToya Childs and Shonna Magee!

This is a Hybrid Conference with the option to join via Zoom. 

During Lunch on Saturday, we will have our  SC RID Business Meeting. All are welcome to attend. Voting Members can vote on Bylaws amendments and Board members for the 2024-2026 term.

Lunch and Dinner on Saturday will be provided. 

Be sure to visit our sponsors' booths at the Conference! 

Click here to register for Friday

Click here to register for Saturday

LaToya Childs LaToya Childs, CI has been working in this field for over 20 years as a nationally certified interpreter and is currently a full-time freelance interpreter and interpreter educator. LaToya has worked in a variety of settings, including VRS/VRI, Education, and Medical. She has a Master's Degree from Western Governor's University in Instructional Design, as well as Management and Leadership. She has studied mentoring strategies and frameworks for ten years, and she completed the Master Mentor Program at Troy University. She is currently the President of the National Alliance of Black Interpreters - Atlanta Chapter. LaToya’s passion is mentoring and education of aspiring interpreters. When she is not working, she enjoys spending time with her family.

Shonna Magee Shonna Magee (MRC, NIC: Master, CI, CT, OTC, CoreCHI, CWIP) has over 26 years of experience interpreting, presenting, providing interpreter diagnostics, and mentoring. She specializes in emergency management, vocational rehabilitation, VRI, and medical interpreting.  She has served as a professor of interpreting and ASL at Daytona State College and a professor of ASL at Pensacola State College.  She received her Bachelor's in interpreting from the University of Cincinnati and her Master's in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of South Carolina where she was the Statewide Coordinator of Deaf Services for the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department. She is currently the Director of Operations at SIGNature Access Solutions LLC and SIGNature CEUs LLC.

The Four Points Sheraton Hotel is 1.5 miles from the Conference and serves free breakfast.

The Conference room rate expired Jan. 6th, but rooms at the regular rate may still be available.

Click here to reserve your hotel room.

Friday's workshop is open to all. On Saturday, there are two tracks. The BLUE Track with LaToya Childs includes two 3-hour workshops that will focus on voicing and mentoring.

The GREEN Track with Shonna Magee includes one 6-hour workshop split into two parts. This workshop will focus on ethical practices. For those taking the GREEN Track, Friday's workshop is a required prerequisite. If you cannot attend on Friday, this workshop will be available virtually.  

Our closing workshop with LaToya Childs is open to all and will focus on creating a plan for your professional development.

You have the opportunity to earn up to 1.05 CEUs at this year's Conference! 

Friday, February 2nd

5:00 - 6:00 pm 

Registration, Vendor exhibits, and Networking

(Vendors may begin setting up at 4:30 pm)

6:00-9:00 pm 

"Disability, Civil Rights, & Other Laws for Interpreters" Workshop presented by Shonna Magee, 0.3 PS CEUs

"Extra Credit" 0.1 PS CEU Available for Participants (read more below!)

Please note that this workshop is open to all. It is a pre-requisite for those who wish to attend the Green track on Saturday. 

Pop Quiz! Name three disability/civil rights laws that support Deaf consumers and two federal laws that affect the interpreting profession. Go ahead, I'll wait...

If you can't list those laws off the top of your head right now, you will be able to after this workshop! During this workshop, Shonna will hit the highlights of several laws that apply to the daily work of interpreters, such as the ADA and IDEA. You will then discuss different situations that can (and do) come up in the field, and practice applying these laws to those situations. Whether you are a working interpreter or working towards being an interpreter, you will come out of this workshop feeling more confident about your knowledge of disability and civil rights laws, and other laws that have a direct impact on interpreters. More importantly, you will feel more confident about your ability to apply your knowledge in the field.

Extra Credit! If you write out by hand the CPC (verbatim) and summarize each tenant briefly in your own words by the time of the workshop, you can earn an extra 0.1 CEUs! After you register for this workshop, you will receive more information on this. 

**Update on Extra Credit: We learned that we cannot offer CEUs for prework. Instead, Shonna Magee has generously offered to give all conference participants a QR code for a free HIPAA webinar worth .2 CEUs.**

Saturday February 3rd 

8:00 - 9:00 am

Registration, Vendor exhibits and Networking