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18th Annual
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We had another great year at the Summer Institute for Educational
Interpreters at Tennessee School for the Deaf! Here's a recap for
those who attended and for those who missed it - we hope to see
you next year!
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Day 1 (topics and order reflect my schedule)
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Registration
Another great bag and mug!
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History of TSD
Tennessee School for the Deaf has a fascinating history of serving
deaf children stretching from 1845 to today. From the original campus
in downtown Knoxville, through the Civil War, to the new (current)
campus, TSD has stood strong serving not only as a school, but also
as a home, an evaluation center, a Child Study Center, a Comprehensive
Educational Resource Center (CERC), an outreach center, and now
it has a Post-Secondary Transition Program (PSTP) as well.
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Roundtable Development
A wonderful feature of the Summer Institute is the opportunity to
bring our own topics to the institute. During this session, we brainstormed
what topics we wanted to discuss in two roundtable sessions later
in the week. Sessions included topics such as Interpreter Advocacy,
Student Advocacy, Interpreting for Special Needs Students, Interpreter
Standards, Interpreting for Standardized Tests, and Interpreting
Special Topics & Settings (Foreign Languages, Related Arts,
Assemblies). (There may have been other topics, but I didn't get
them all recorded.)
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"Sign to Voice" Rotation
Resources - Giving Voice to Good Education: The World in Your
Hands (Sign Enhancers)- DVD (available through LSDHH)
- Focus on one or two items to focus on improving at a time. While
voicing, it is quite difficult to focus on anything else, so keep
your goals to a minimum.
- Fingerspelling is very difficult for many of us, especially
while voicing. Even in context, fingerspelling is tricky.
- Instead of "feedback," using the term "debriefing"
is a more accurate description of what we should do and can help
disarm a person who is sensitive to criticism.
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Evening Social - I can't comment on this because I was unable
to attend, but I heard it was a great night.
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Day 2
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"Fingerspelling & Numbers" Rotation
Resources - Charting the Way, Ch. 7 (Minnesota) - Book, ABC 123:
Fingerspelling and Numbers in ASL (RID) - DVD & Book, Fingerspelling
1 & 2 (Signs for Intelligence) - DVDs, Number Signs for Everyone:
Numbering in American Sign Language (Dawn Sign Press) - VHS/DVD,
Master ASL! Fingerspelling & Numbers (Sign Media) - DVD &
Book, Signing Naturally Series (Dawn Sign Press) - VHS/DVDs &
Books, Fingerspelling: The Final Frontier (Sign Enhancers) - VHS
(all available through LSDHH)
- As a warm-up, use exercises that cross the body's center in
order to help balance the right and left brain activity necessary
for fingerspelling.
- Use the context around the fingerspelling to help decode the
word - fingerspelling is rarely done in isolation.
- Numbers can be harder to predict, but context can still help.
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"How to Prepare to Interpret a Class" Elective
- Step 1 - Feed your ELK (Extra-Linguistic Knowledge) - read,
current events, socialize, travel; believe in yourself to increase
your potential of success which will bring about a better performance
and so give you positive results which come back to feed your
belief in yourself.
- Step 2 - Go for the point - Sandra Gish's Goal to Detail Model
of Interpreting: make sure to interpret the point or goal of the
text, not just supply all the details.
- Step 3 - Resources - The Interpreter's Tapestry (you're already
here!) has most resources collected in one place to assist interpreters
in finding signs or topics for preparation.
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Language Development
PowerPoint - 2003
version (.ppt) or 2007
version (.pptx)
(Download
PowerPoint Viewer 2007 for free).
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"Logistics & Demand/Control" Elective
Based on the work of Robyn Dean and Bob Pollard.
- Demands - stressors of the job: environmental, interpersonal,
paralinguistic, intrapersonal
- Controls - what you can do about these stressors: pre-assignment,
assignment, post-assignment, "No"
- Know what you need to do your job & communicate that
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"Voice to Sign" Rotation
Resources - The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
(Random House, 1963) - VHS/DVD
Know the purpose and goals of showing the movie (of any classroom
interpreting). It will affect your interpretation: focus on vocabulary,
emotions, shapes, repetition & rhythm - art class, math class,
English class
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Roundtables - large group discussions, no notes
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Transition with Deaf Students
"First day of adult life should not look different than last
day of district services."
- Transition starts at age 14
- Set reasonable, attainable, realistic goals
- PATH - Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope
- Make sure everyone is involved: student, parents, teachers,
advisors, community
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Evening Social - Performance of King Arthur by the
InterAct Children's Theatre for the Deaf
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Day 3
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"Ethics" Rotation
Resources - Decisions? Decisions! (H & H Publishers) - Book
(available through LSDHH)
- Ethical codes protect all people invovled in the provision of
professional services (professional, clients, consumers, etc.)
- Meta-ethical Principles: utilitarian, rights, justice &
equality, common good, virtues
- Ethics (variables change) vs. Protocol (prescribed behavioral
procedures)
- Resolving Ethical Questions/Problems - procedure
- "Accessibility Expert" - not just an interpreter,
we have multiple roles and have to ask what role are we in at
the moment and what ethics apply to THAT role
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"Interpreting for Hard of Hearing and Cochlear Implant
Students" Elective
Resources - Teaching the Kids with High-Tech Ears (Seaver Creative
Services) - DVD, Cochlear Implants in Children: Ethics & Choices
(Gallaudet University Press) - Book (both available through LSDHH)
- Signing style: more English-like sign; less lag time, more "echo"
effect; continue signing even if the student is "not looking"
at you (peripheral vision, catch the "echo")
- Auditory Discrimination (can detect and identify individual
sounds) vs. Understanding Speech (can identify words while listening
and connect meaning to those words)
- Considerations: daily maintenance of the technology, unique
needs of the child (cognitive, physical, age at implantation),
mode of communication, oral/aural rehabilitation, staff proficiency
in communication mode, educational modifications
- Acoustic environment affects listening ability - carpets vs.
tile floors, size of room, indoors or outdoors
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Networking with Deaf Adults
VP has replaced some need for deaf events, but they still happen:
- Check your local deaf centers or interpreting agencies - most
have websites that list deaf events or calendars
- Check Tennessee Association of the Deaf website
- Check with local colleges that offer sign language or interpreting
classes
- Check social networking sites (Facebook)
- Subscribe to deaf newsletters that update events by email
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Brain Gym - You have to be here to experience it!
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"Use of Space/Role Shifting" Rotation
Resources - Interpretation Skills: English to ASL (& ASL
to English) (Interpreting Consolidated) - Books
- Use the signer's perspective in most situations (right and left
stay on the the interpreter's right and left, not flipped for
the student's perspective) - only adjust when it causes confusion,
especially for young students or students unfamiliar with adjusting
- teach them to adjust to signer's perspective
- Sometimes eye gaze is all that is needed to reference a shift
- When shifting to a new setting, re-set-up the characters in
their new locations
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Roundtables - large group discussions, no notes
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What is TRID?
Your local interpreting organization:
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Day 4
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"Theater/Music" Rotation
Resources - The Storyteller's Start-Up Book (August House Publishers)
- Book, Hazards of Deafness (Joyce Media) - Book (this book only
available through LSDHH)
- Make strong choices - word/sign choices, a reason for every
choice and movement
- Performance Interpreting - platform, sightline, zone, shadow
- consider costuming
- Request an ALD (assistive listening device) to assist hearing
when interpreting on stage or in an auditorium
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Performances - You have to be here to see them!
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Certificates - Every year we get great certificates to take
back to our school systems as evidence of over 20 hours of professional
development!
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