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Information regarding the various awards granted by CAEDHH:
Criteria for Honorary Lifetime Membership to be granted by CAEDHH
At the CAEDHH National Executive Meeting, held April 7th and 8th, 2006, the criteria for determining who will qualify for a CAEDHH Honorary Lifetime Membership was defined. The criteria are as follows:
Candidates for consideration must be/have been a CAEDHH executive member at the local and/or national level
AND
must have been a member in good standing for a minimum of 10 years
AND
must have made a significant contribution to CAEDHH on a national level.
Any candidate nominated by a provincial CAEDHH membership must be accepted by a ⅔ vote of the CAEDHH National Executive to receive an honorary lifetime membership. Honorary lifetime memberships are usually granted to those who are retiring/retired.
For further information and to nominate a candidate, please contact your CAEDHH Regional Director. Nominations are due in the September before the Biennial National Conference.
R.J.D. Williams Scholarship
In 1991 a scholarship was established from monies presented to CAEDHH as a parting gift from the alumni and staff of the RJD Williams School for the Deaf in Saskatchewan. The scholarship is awarded at each CAEDHH Biennial Convention (which began in 1993 in Montreal). The initial value is $500.00.
The scholarship is intended to support the following:
a) Research into deaf issues (education, language, sign systems, aural habilitation, deaf culture, counselling, cochlear implants, etc.)
b) Continued studies in the field of deafness
c) Development of materials to promote awareness or extend knowledge of deafness; ir, in the area of fiction, to depict deaf characters or deaf culture.
Applicants must:
1) Be a member of CAEDHH
2) Be a trained teacher of the deaf
3) Have a minimum of three (3) years experience in deaf education
The application form is available here.
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