Mikki Simpson Professional Development Fund
The Mikki Simpson Professional Development Fund is a stipend that NCRID provides to its members to help offset the cost of testing. It is a one-time payment of $100 that can be applied to either the written or performance portion of either RID Certification or the EIPA. You must be a member of NCRID for 12 consecutive months prior to applying for the stipend. You may apply for the stipend once you have successfully completed one of the above-mentioned tests. The application must be submitted within 45 days after receiving your results. Proof of passing must be included with the application with a date stamp of when the test was passed.
Eileen "Mikki" Simpson
Mrs. Simpson, who was Deaf, received her undergraduate degree from Augustana College in Illinois, took teacher training at Gallaudet University in 1954 and 1955 and received a Masters from the California State University at Northridge ("CSUN") in 1974. After beginning her teaching career at the Louisiana School for the Deaf, she moved to Morganton in 1957 to teach at the North Carolina School for the Deaf. Mrs. Simpson also worked at CSUN for a year as a guidance counselor before returning to NCSD to work in a variety of teaching and administrative positions until her retirement in 1994. In 1984, she was honored as Educator of the Year by the Southeast Regional Institute on Deafness. Mrs. Simpson was active in a variety of community activities and nonprofit organizations at the local, state and national level, including the National Association of the Deaf (where she served on the board), the NC Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf and the Gallaudet University Alumni Association. She was named the first female president of the NC Association of the Deaf in 1981.
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