Attention book lovers!
The Monthly on-line book sessions are aimed around having professional discussion, inspired and directly applicable to our professional work as sign language interpreters. Books and themes are chosen only from non-fiction works, used in higher education, to explore lived experiences, research, and historical learnings that deepen our understanding of our work, culture, and community and ultimately our perspectives and behaviors.
What is the On-line group like?
Sessions go for the calendar month advertised, with registration allowed until the 5th day of each month. The discussion is all in written text and happens via an online education platform called Canvas, which is free to users. (Update: due to the Canvas hacking incident, discussions are moved to Goodreads discussion groups until further notice).
The moderator posts a weekly reflection question that prompts readers to write thoughtful responses on the chapters assigned for reading in the book that week. You also respond to peers with written comment that to encourage meaningful conversations about the salient cultural, linguistic, ethical, or power/privilege/oppression themes in the book.
There is a due date each week to post your written reflections to keep the flow of conversation going through the end of the book in week 4, but there is also flexibility to the interruptions of life with this self-paced experience. There is no specific time to be on-line each week, and no live/Zoom discussions. Log in anytime to engage in the discussion and post your reflections.
At the end of the month, the RID CMP Sponsor, Ginevra Deianni, who is also the moderator, confirms all posted assignments and then awards RID CEUs either by directly posting the CEUs to your RID transcript or via a Certificate of Completion for BEI and state certifications (or both)
Note: Participants must purchase their own book to participate, due to copyright laws. The cost of each monthly book club covers all CEU processing fees and RID CMP oversight, but the book must be purchased independently by the participant (this is like a college course with the corresponding textbook sold separately).
Cost: $80 per monthly session
CEUs: All book club sessions earn 1.0 RID CEUs
Register: by the 5th of each month for the current monthly session, or register in advance for any book on the list.
Registering now - September Session:
"Deaf People in Hitler's Europe"
By: Donna F Ryan & John S Schuchman
September 1 - 30, 2026
1.0 PS + PPO CEUs $80
This groundbreaking book grew out of Gallaudet’s 1998 conference of the same name, held in partnership with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Through historical research and the accounts of Deaf survivors, we will read about forced sterilization, the T4 “euthanasia” program, and the ideology that ultimately led to the persecution and murder of thousands of Deaf and disabled people. Through three historical sections: “Racial Hygiene,” “The German Experience,” and “The Jewish Deaf Experience", we will we will examine this difficult history through a Deaf-centered lens, considering what it can teach us about language, identity, power, belonging, and the role of interpreters & allies today.
Registering now through September 5th
2026 Book Titles*:
- October: “What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear” by: Danielle Ofri (register now in drop down menu)
- November: “Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past & Reimagining Our Future” by: Patty Krawec (register now in drop down menu)
- Dec: TBD - our December session is always a 2-week self-care topic
*All titles and session months subject to change
What if I miss a book club monthly session, but love the book title?
No worries! You can find all our monthly book club selections in the Cultural Novel Project Series (still 1.0 CEUs) to do anytime, on your own, with a similar reflection writing format. See that project page for more details.