Sample Presentation Topics Include But Are NOT Limited To:
Methods for Improving Sign and Voice Skills
With as busy as we get in life, it can often be difficult to find time for skills improvement. In this workshop we will discuss methods for skills improvement that interpreters can practice from their own homes and we will put some of these in practice in small groups. Skills do not have to atrophy with the tools we have at the ready!
Making Linear Language 3-D
As interpreters, we work so hard to make sure we say all of the words we are hearing that we very often forget how they are being said. We tend to be more narrative in our interpreting as opposed to speaking from the first person perspective. This workshop will be geared toward broadening our thinking on how phrasing in English can be interpreted in a pictorial fashion. Participants will practice role-shifting, eye gaze, classifiers, first person storytelling in sign, and they will practice using general 3-D signing space.
Methods for Improving Sign and Voice Skills for Educational Settings
Working in educational settings can sometimes create a void of skills improvement. Instead of our skills increasing as with community work, we often feel that they are deteriorating since we are the language models for the children we work with. In this workshop we will look at methods of skills improvement and will put this into practice in groups.
Sight Translation
Sight translation is something that many fear on the BEI exam but something that we probably do more than we realize. In this workshop we will explore techniques for improving sight translation skills and tips for test taking. We will look at common documents which are sight translated for clients. Sight translation is no longer a topic to be feared!
Common English Idioms
English idioms trip interpreters up at every turn during assignments. In this workshop we will analyze commonly spoken English idioms to decode them and encode them into ASL. Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill! English idioms are as easy as pie! Make a beeline to this workshop to be all that you can be!
Building the Body in 3-D Space
Explaining medical situations in sign language can often feel uncomfortable when we choose to point to our own body parts. This workshop will focus on how to build the body in 3-D space in order to better manipulate the organs in a pictorial format.
Explaining medical situations in sign language can often feel uncomfortable when we choose to point to our own body parts. This workshop will focus on how to build the body in 3-D space in order to better manipulate the organs in a pictorial format.
The Bible: Now Showing in 3-D
As interpreters, we work so hard to make sure we say all of the words we are hearing that we very often forget how they are being said. We tend to be more narrative in our interpreting as opposed to speaking from the first person perspective. This workshop will be geared toward broadening our thinking on how common Bible stories can be interpreted. Participants will practice role-shifting, eye gaze, classifiers, first person storytelling in sign, and they will practice using general 3-D signing space.
As interpreters, we work so hard to make sure we say all of the words we are hearing that we very often forget how they are being said. We tend to be more narrative in our interpreting as opposed to speaking from the first person perspective. This workshop will be geared toward broadening our thinking on how common Bible stories can be interpreted. Participants will practice role-shifting, eye gaze, classifiers, first person storytelling in sign, and they will practice using general 3-D signing space.
