{"id":21825,"date":"2013-02-11T11:21:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T16:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=21825"},"modified":"2013-02-12T02:12:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T07:12:18","slug":"who-is-steve-hamerdinger-take-a-look-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/02\/11\/who-is-steve-hamerdinger-take-a-look-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Steve Hamerdinger? Take a look Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who is Steve Hamerdinger?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Steve Hamerdinger will come DFW and give amazing workshop this Saturday, February 16, 2013. You cannot afford to miss this one! Come and join this exciting workshop &#8212; this is his first time ever come Texas. We promise you it will be worth your time to come and be part of this historical workshop! Otherwise you will regret forever!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Little bio about him &#8212; see below. Also, you can read his resume and workshop details via link below as well. Any questions, please contact Signs 2 go Interpreting &amp; Support Services, LLC for more details!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL RETARDATION<br \/>\nOffice of Deaf Services<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biographical Information: Steve Hamerdinger, M.A.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Steve-Hamerdinger.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21360\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/01\/09\/mental-health-interpreting-the-alabama-model-dfw\/steve-hamerdinger\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Steve-Hamerdinger.jpg?fit=593%2C701&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"593,701\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Steve-Hamerdinger\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Steve-Hamerdinger.jpg?fit=560%2C662&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21360 alignright\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"Steve-Hamerdinger\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Steve-Hamerdinger-253x300.jpg?resize=253%2C300\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Steve-Hamerdinger.jpg?resize=253%2C300&amp;ssl=1 253w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Steve-Hamerdinger.jpg?w=593&amp;ssl=1 593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a>Steve Hamerdinger has been the Director of the Office of Deaf Services at the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation since January, 2003. Before this he was the Director of the Office of Deaf and Linguistic Support Services at the Missouri Department of Mental Health, a position he held for ten years. Mr. Hamerdinger has an M.A. in Counseling of the Deaf from Gallaudet University. Named \u201cDeaf Person of the Month\u201d in November, 2008 by Deaf Life magazine, he owns and operates a mental health consulting firm that provides consultation and training on mental health and deafness nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed by SAMHSA in 2009 as one of the two United States representatives to the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL) Network on Mental Health and Deaf Individuals. He has been an adjunct faculty member of several college programs and a visiting lecturer at the University of Missouri and the University of Kansas, has a frequent presenter at Psychiatric Grand Rounds at University of Missouri, University of Missouri at Kansas City, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He was the first Reba Hill Memorial Lecturer on Pediatrics at the Baylor University Medical School and is the Past-President of the American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association. His more than 25 years of work in the field has led to being awarded the Alice Cogswell award for service to deaf people by the Gallaudet Alumni Association.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his expertise in deafness and mental health, Steve is a well-known motivational speaker and entertainer. Steve lives in Montgomery with an ever changing menagerie of four-footed companions.<\/p>\n<p>Download Steve Hamerdinger&#8217;s resume (PDF)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/download\/605\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/download\/605\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download Signs2go Interpreting RID Workshop (PDF)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/download\/606\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/download\/606\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Website:<br \/>\nSigns 2 go Interpreting &amp; Support Services, LLC<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.signs2gointerpreting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.signs2gointerpreting.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is Steve Hamerdinger? Steve Hamerdinger will come DFW and give amazing workshop this Saturday, February 16, 2013. You cannot afford to miss this one! Come and join this exciting workshop &#8212; this is his first time ever come Texas.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/02\/11\/who-is-steve-hamerdinger-take-a-look-today\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[6382,16502,16509,24388,3277,121,16503,898,7598,16505,40,5967,14837,17233,318,2903,17234,16498,17,43],"class_list":["post-21825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deaf-news","tag-alabama","tag-alice-cogswell-award","tag-american-deafness-and-rehabilitation-association","tag-dfw","tag-entertainer","tag-fort-worth","tag-gallaudet-alumni-association","tag-gallaudet-university","tag-gallaudet-university-southwest-regional-center","tag-iimhl","tag-interpreter","tag-magazine","tag-mental-health","tag-motivational-speaker","tag-resume","tag-samhsa","tag-signs-2-go-interpreting-support-services","tag-steve-hamerdinger","tag-texas","tag-workshop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p752R-5G1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21887,"url":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/02\/14\/reminder-mental-health-interpreting-workshop-21613-dfw\/","url_meta":{"origin":21825,"position":0},"title":"REMINDER: Mental Health Interpreting Workshop 2\/16\/13 &#8211; 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