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Lecturer
- M.S., Western Maryland College, Teaching Interpreting, 1991
- B.S., St. Louis Christian College, Ministry with Music & Deafness minor emphasis, 1982
For over 18 years, Kevin was employed by Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska, as their Sign Communication and Curriculum Specialist and is the Director of the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment (EIPA) Diagnostic Center. Kevin provided Boys Town’s Center for Childhood Deafness, Language and Learning with clinical support for language/academic/social assessments of deaf and hard-of-hearing children. He also served nationally as a consultant on issues pertaining to educational interpreting and deaf students in inclusive educational settings, a service which is ongoing today.
While at Boys Town, and in collaboration with Dr. Brenda Schick (University of Colorado-Boulder), he developed the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment (EIPA), a diagnostic instrument for educational interpreters and their employing schools/districts. The EIPA is currently in use nationally, with over 50% of the United States using the tool to license or credentialize educational interpreters. Kevin also co-created a written-knowledge test specifically for educational interpreters. Kevin served as the producer for the Sign With Me parent sign language videotape curriculum and the Read With Me ASL storytelling series.
Kevin is the past-president of the Nebraska Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf. He has served as a board member for the Nebraska Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and is a consultant to the Nebraska Department of Education. Kevin is a member of the Conference of Interpreter Trainers, the Council of Exceptional Children, the Conference of American Instructors of the Deaf, and the National Association of the Deaf. He also served as a content expert for the new RID/NAD joint certification test.
Kevin left Boys Town in 2005 and created the National Consortium on Educational Interpreting, an LLC founded to provide educational and diagnostic services for educational interpreters. He provided diagnostic evaluation services for the EIPA Dx Center and consulted nationally on issues related to inclusion and educational interpreting.
In the summer of 2008 Kevin joined the faculty of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology. He instructs in the area of interpretation and linguistics, teaching both at RIT and also on-line courses for the University of Nebraska, Omaha.
Licensure
Certificate of Interpretation and Certificate of Transliteration from the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
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