{"id":841,"date":"2016-03-24T11:35:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T18:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/new-rrcd\/?page_id=841"},"modified":"2020-10-15T14:05:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T21:05:11","slug":"mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/rrcd\/home\/mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>New Center\u2019s Name<\/b><\/h3>\n<h5>Research and Resource Center with Deaf* communities (RRCD)<\/h5>\n<h3><b>Mission statement<\/b><\/h3>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RRCD supports Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing individuals by engaging students, professionals, and other stakeholders in practices, advocacy, research, and training.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h3><b>The RRCD is committed to doing our PART through goals in:\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<h4><b>Practices:<\/b><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RRCD is committed to transforming ethical, reflective, and dynamic practices through application of evidence-based solutions. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">practices.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h4><b>Advocacy:<\/b><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RRCD will provide resources to increase the provision of research, scholarship, and educational materials.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h4><b>Research:<\/b><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RRCD aims to be recognized as a center of excellence for innovative research and programming.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h4><b>Training:<\/b><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RRCD will continue to provide educational opportunities and programming focused on the Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing communities.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">*Deaf &#8211; The RRCD has adopted with minor adaptations, the definition of \u2018Deaf\u2019 that is used by the National Deaf Center (NDC). The RRCD i<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">s using the term <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">deaf<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in an all-inclusive manner, to include people who may identify as D\/deaf, DeafBlind, deaf-blind, deaf with additional disabilities, hard of hearing, late-deafened, and\/or persons with unilateral\/bilateral hearing loss. RRCD recognizes that for many individuals, identity is fluid and can change over time or with setting. RRCD has chosen to use one term, Deaf, with the goal of recognizing experiences that are shared by all members of our diverse communities while also honoring all of our differences. Source: https:\/\/www.nationaldeafcenter.org\/defining-deaf<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Center\u2019s Name Research and Resource Center with Deaf* communities (RRCD) Mission statement RRCD supports Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing individuals by engaging students, professionals, and other stakeholders in practices, advocacy, research, and training. The RRCD is committed to doing our PART through goals in:\u00a0 Practices: RRCD is committed to transforming ethical, reflective, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":754,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-841","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/rrcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/rrcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/rrcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/rrcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/rrcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/rrcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/841\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/rrcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/rrcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}