Workshops on Interpreting Theory and Practice

• Discover beliefs about language and communication that affect interpreters and interactants
• Recognize how our beliefs dictate the strategies we use 
• Develop strategies for ASL-to-English interpretation that focus on ideologically-driven interpretation and consider the impact on the listeners

 Taught in English  

• Discover differences between markers of register in ASL and spoken English.
• Develop interpretation options for various registers 

Taught in ASL or English 

• Develop strategies for utilizing 3-dimensional space in English-to-ASL interpretations.
• Address content area specific techniques for classroom interpreters (English, Social Studies, Science, Math). 

Taught in ASL or English 

• Co-led and co-developed with Lynnette Taylor and Candace Broecker Penn
• Based on Sign Language Interpreting for Theatre: A Collaborative Approach

 Taught in ASL or English 

• Participant-led discussions of real world experiences. 
• Assess underlying issues (linguistic, interpretation knowledge and skill, interpersonal, ideological). 
• Role-play to explore new responses to problematic situations. 

   Taught in ASL or English 

• Identify prosodic markers in ASL for stress, affect, sentence boundaries and connectors between utterances.
• Develop strategies for producing natural utterances in ASL. 
• Produce discourse level utterances by making connections between the content and the signs.

 Taught in ASL or English 

• Analyze incoming English utterances for connections and deeper meaning during simultaneous interpretation
• Seeking coherence in interpretations

Taught in ASL or English 

• Accepting work in today's market. 

 Taught in ASL or English