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Enhancing Skills in Deaf Interpretation: A Tech-Driven Approach to Mentorship

This guide explores strategies for improving your interpreting skills without traditional mentorship. It emphasizes leveraging technology and resources available online, while highlighting the importance of engaging with the Deaf community and fellow interpreters. Readers will be encouraged to stay passionate, aware, and flexible in their learning. Practical advice includes creating concrete goals, maintaining cultural awareness, and analyzing one aspect of interpretation to enhance. Dive into available resources and empower your growth in the field of Deaf interpretation.

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Enhancing Skills in Deaf Interpretation: A Tech-Driven Approach to Mentorship

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  1. Mentoring without a Mentor Increasing Your Skills Using Technology Grace Sylvester-Samis

  2. CAVAETS

  3. CAVAETS • You SHOULD have a mentor.

  4. CAVAETS • You SHOULD have a mentor. • You SHOULD spend time with the Deaf Community

  5. CAVAETS • You SHOULD have a mentor. • You SHOULD spend time with the Deaf Community • You SHOULD socialize with other interpreters

  6. CAVAETS • You SHOULD have a mentor. • You SHOULD spend time with the Deaf Community • You SHOULD socialize with other interpreters • You SHOULD work closely with your peers

  7. BUT…..

  8. BUT….. • You CAN start alone with the RIGHT resources and using technology!

  9. A few important aspects of improvement BE PASSIONATE BE AWARE / KEEP CURRENT BE WILLING STAY FLEXIBLE

  10. BE PASSIONATE • Love it! • Immerse yourself! • Talk about it! • Get that feeling!!

  11. Be Aware • Know WHO’S WHO • Angel Ramos • Robert Davilia • Jane Fernandez • Eileen Forestal, Kathy Basilotto, Josie Durkow, SallyAnn Emilius • Dr. T. Alan Hurwitz • Terry Safay, Cheryl Vail, Audrey Rosenberg

  12. Keep Current • Know WHAT’S WHAT • The Mediator • Monthly Communicator • Views • Odyssey • PEPNet & PEPNet 2.0 • IEISMS • StreetLeverage.com

  13. Keep Current • Know WHAT’S WHAT • How Stuff Works • (web / book) • Google ‘reminders’ • DeafTimes - NJ-L News • Starbucks Coffee Chat • The Interpreter Chat • Sign Clubs and Events: • OCC / UCC / CCC / BCC

  14. Extra Reading • The Outliers • Malcolm Gladwell • The Power of Focus • Jack Canfield • Its Called Work for a Reason • Larry Winget

  15. BE WILLING • Do whatever you can, whenever you can • Do whatever it takes!

  16. Be Flexible • SAYS IT ALL!

  17. Getting down to business… HAVE CONCRETE GOALS… PUT IT IN WRITING!

  18. But WHERE TO START… when you’re overwhelmed??? Appearance (physical, comfort, clarity), Cultural Mediator/Ally; Rapport w/Clients, Message Fluency, Set up (location, lighting, client’s view), Teaming, Handshape, Location, Palm Orientation, Movement, Fluency, Mouth Morphemes, Adverbial/Grammatical Accuracy, Fingerspelling, Fluency, Acronyms, Loan Signs, Labeling, Number Clarity, Type, Fluency, Parameter, Labeling,, ASL Structure, word order Accurate Surface Translations, Sentence Types (Topical, Statement, Imperative, Questions-Wh, Rhetorical, Yes/No), Body Shifting), Appropriate Sign Space, Spatial Agreement (Noun Referencing, Pronominalization Indexing, Verb Usage), Use of Eyes, Setting, Perspective, List, Transitioning, Identify Then Do, Noun/Pronouns (Physically Accurate, SASS), Verb/Adverbs (Accurate Location and Action), Prosody, Nesting/Scaffolding/Couching, Describe then Do, Faceting, Explain by Examples/Listing, Contrast/Compare, Reiteration, 3-D Space/Perspective, Sign Choice/Word Choice, Diverse Vocab., Register, Intent, Affect, General Message, Clarify, Auditory Memory, Chunking, Addition, Omission, Message Fluency

  19. ANALYZE YOURSELF and just pick ONE aspect to improve.

  20. ANALYZE YOURSELF and just pick ONE aspect to improve. • Classifiers

  21. Find the RESOURCES • STATIC VOCABULARY • www.aslpro.com • www.dcmp.org • www.youtube.com • www.signingsavvy • www.rit.edu/ntid/sciencesigns/ • www.deafnewspaper.com

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