Mental Health - Publications by Shine

Hi all

Recently came across a great publication called 'Taking Control of your Mental Health'. It's a very comprehensive book that outlines the processes involved in diagnosis, medication and several other aspects of mental health services and care - great background for any of us who may be involved in mental health interpreting.

It's produced by SHINE who are involved in mental health awareness and they have several other publication online too.


Cormac

Interpreter Trainers' Network (ITN)

ASLIA National (Australia) has set up a new association for interpreter educators and trainers - the Interpreter Trainers' Network (ITN). 

Visit the website of the ITN at http://itn.aslia.com.au to see the resources and information available to teachers of interpreters. 

For more information contact Karen Bontempo at itn@aslia.com.au

Presentation and Workshop for ISL Interpreters, Limerick, 2nd Oct 2010

Puzzled? 

What IS that signer doing 

(and HOW am I supposed to interpret it)?

Presentation and Workshop

(For only ISL interpreters)

By Lorraine Leeson

Saturday, 2^nd October 2010

At Deaf Community Centre, 96A O Connell Street, Limerick City

At 3pm-5pm

Interpreters worldwide often express fear of voice-over and this sometimes has its basis in how they will be judged by other interpreters-or the audience. Some of this anxiety seems be based not in a lack of knowledge of English as a TL, but rather the relationship between the SL and the TL, and perhaps a lack of clarity regarding how information is structured. We know Daniel Gile’s Effort Model (Listening & Attention, Memory, Production, and Coordination) helps identify where interpreter processing goes awry. But-maybe what we also need to look again at what the signer is saying…this presentation and discussion introduces some recent findings from cognitive linguistics that are invaluable in helping interpreters figure out why certain types of text seem ‘harder’ to figure out than others, how the signer partitions out their body to represent different aspects of events, and how more than one perspective on an event can be encoded at one time. We will look at some examples and consider how an interpreter might produce a Target Language given these new ways of considering ISL Source Language messages, and also consider what this brings to SLIs working into ISL as a Target Language.

Tea & coffee will be provided

Let us know if you are coming by email: info@dcclimerick.eu or text 086 7348641

Medical Interpreting - great NHS Resource

Thanks to Suzanne Carey of KDRC for forwarding this great link with info on medical terminolog, and a very easy to use glossary of medical terms.

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Pages/bodymap.aspx

Open Yale courses - subtitled University Lectures FREE online

Hi all

I found a great resource for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people in Education.

Yale University in USA has lots of free lecture series online - in all these subjects:

• Astronomy
• Biomedical Engineering
• Classics
• Economics
• English
• History
• Philosophy
• Physics
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Religious Studies

Each course has about 12 - 24 lectures (one hour each) and all of them have Closed Captions. (or if you prefer, text transcripts.)

You can use QuickTime to play each lecture (the files are very big so you need good BroadBand) and click 'CC' to turn on subtitles.

Just go to the homepage:

http://oyc.yale.edu/

Then choose one of the subject on the left.

You will see different courses listed on the page for each subject.

Click on a course.

Then on the next page, click view class sessions >> Then you will see a list of lectures.

Click on any lecture.

Here you can download the entire transcript of the lecture AND the video of the lecture.

At the end of the screen you will see:

Quicktime Options
[low bandwidth] - dialup
[high bandwidth / closed captioned] - cable / T1
average file size 600MB


Click on closed captioned

Then a new window will open and the lecture will play
Click on CC to switch on subtitles.


Great resource for Deaf / HOH people who want to find out more (not just Deaf / HOH, I am thinking of watching an Economics course there myself!)



Bad news: no ISL or ASL there yet! Maybe thats next step .... ?



Cormac

WASLI Newsletters 2009

There are 2 WASLI Newsletters for you to read. These have been uploaded to the WASLI website www.wasli.org

Thanks to George Major who has produced both these newsletters.

WASLI Newsletter 2009-01

• NEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

• CREATING OPPORTUNITIES: FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR ASLIA CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE

• SEMINAR ON THE GLOBAL EDUCATION PRE‐PLANNING PROJECT ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF

DEAF PEOPLE

• THE 2ND MEETING OF ASIA / PACIFIC SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS IN NEPAL 2008

• WFD ASIA / PACIFIC REGIONAL MEETING, POKHARA, NEPAL 2008

Link:

http://www.wasli.org/PDFs/News/WASLI_newsletter_2009-01.pdf

WASLI Newsletter 2009-02

• THE SITUATION OF DEAF IN TOGO AND SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING

• NEWS FROM MADAGASCAR

• NEWS FROM NAOBI

• DEAF PEOPLE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: COMPREHENSIVE REPORT RELEASED

• FIJI ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF: INTERNATIONAL DEAF WEEK AWARENESS PROGRAMME

• CIT LAUNCHES INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERPRETER EDUCATION

• 1st SYMPOSIUM IN APPLIED SIGN LINGUISTICS

Link:http://www.wasli.org/PDFs/News/WASLI_newsletter_2009-02.pdf

If you would like to make a contribution to the WASLI Newsletter, then please contact George Major at newsletter@wasli.org

If you know of any event to be added to the WASLI Calendar, then please contact Zane HEMA at secretary@wasli.org

BEST WISHES

Zane HEMA

WASLI Secretary

secretary@wasli.org

Become a WASLI member and support WASLI in its commitment to develop the profession of sign language interpreting worldwide - for more information http://www.wasli.org/Membership.htm

Translation & Interpreting - NEW ON-LINE FREE JOURNAL

NEW ON-LINE FREE JOURNAL

Translation & Interpreting is a NEW refereed international journal that seeks to create a cross-fertilization between research, training and professional practice. It aims to publish high quality, research-based, original articles, that highlight the applications of research results to the improvement of T&I training and practice. It welcomes contributions not only from well-known senior scholars, but also from new, young scholars in the field.

It is a free on-line journal, hosted by the University of Western Sydney’s Interpreting and Translation Research Node, with the objective to be universally accessible to researchers, educators, students and practitioners of interpreting and translation, as well as to others interested in the discipline.

Translation & Interpreting will be published twice yearly.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The editors are calling for papers for its inaugural issue. Deadline: 15th December 2008

More Resources for Interpreters

Found two new internet resources to do with interpreting.

Interpreter Training Resources: The only dedicated site for students of conference interpreting is a good site, primarily geared towards spoken language conference interpreting but also maybe of interest if interpreter training is your bag.

ProZ.com: The Translation Workplace is again a site more geared towards translators of spoken language and requires a lot of entry of your own info before you can get started but if you're looking to achieve a higher worldwide profile for yourself or your agency - give it a try.

The translation workplace

pd4me - Great interpreter professional development website!

This website is a professional development resource, supporting the development of interpreters in the UK, and worldwide, through the sharing of knowledge, skills and experience. This website was developed by RNID and the ASLI Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Working Party. In 2005, we identified the need for a professional development and support resource for sign language interpreters and other related roles.

This site is intended as a professional development and support resource which encourages knowledge sharing. There are a few areas of the site where information is provided directly from pd4me but many of the areas present information that has been submitted by users of this site.

- I can highly recommend this website - especially if you are looking for sample ethical dilemmas! - Cormac.

Bicycle Analysis and Discourse Maintenance

Bicycle Analysis and Discourse Maintenance
Lorraine Leeson

"Some have claimed that an understanding of linguistics is not necessary for the interpreter. They compare the task of interpreting to that of riding a bicycle - they argue that you don't need to be able to take the bike apart to be able to ride it. But when difficulties ensue - when tyres get punctured, a repair kit is necessary and good old fashioned know-how is essential. This also applies to interpreting! But unlike the cyclist, the interpreter's repair kit often comes in the guise of pragmatic know how. "

Read the rest of the article here.

WASLI - World Association of Sign Language Interpreters - Newsletters

The World Association of Sign Language Interpreters is a global body representing interpreters from every corner of this little planet of ours. While it's quite a new organisation it has achieved a lot in a very short space of time.

One thing I like about WASLI is its newsletters. Here's the most recent one, and here's one from 2007 mentioning IASLI's closure.

Always good to get a global perspective. Think global - act local, as they say...

Some links for learners of ISL...

I found this webpage showing some of the gendered signs in older ISL - and some pointers to Barbara LeMaster's invaluable work on male and female signs in the Dublin Deaf community. For those not in the know, years ago when there was stricter segregation of male and female schools in the Dublin deaf schools, different sign vocabularies developed between Deaf boys and girls - and then Deaf men and women.

Here's a slightly out of date biography of ISL.

Here's a blog from Lette where she puts her notes from her ISL classes on how to make some basic signs - great idea - spreading the knowledge! Hint: Try to put up some movie clips too so we can see it in motion,

An excellent article by Patrick A Matthews on the extended lexicon of Irish Sign Language, showing that it is definitely not about one-sign-for-each-word. A must read for students who REALLY want to learn the language that Deaf people use. (Click on 'ERIC Full Text', PDF format)

A similar article by Patrick McDonnell on ISL called 'How Snowmen Move: Some Aspects of Lexical Choice in Irish Sign Language.' (Click on 'ERIC Full Text', PDF format)

Here's a more recent article on ISL and more specifically how it's recognised in the third level education sector. Written by John Bosco Conama and Patrick McDonnell, two of the leading experts in the area.

Here's an article by Lorraine Leeson and others about the 'Signs of Ireland' project that CDS were working on - gives some great information about sign variation.

Here's an article from Deaf Worlds on gendered sign called 'Signs of Diversity' that I wrote - may give you another link into the variations in ISL - old/young, male/female etc.


Cormac

More Online Resources for Interpreters

I've found another excellent resources page for sign language interpreters. This one is by Damon Timm, an ASL interpreter who has many articles and links on his page. There's a good emphasis on Ethics on the pieces up there. Check it out.

And while I'm at it let me recommend The Interpreter's Friend, another excellent resources site by David Bar-Tzur.

Latin phrases commonly used

Here's a guide to commonly used Latin words and phrases I thought might be helpful.

Latin in Common Usage

Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) - VHI Information

A couple of articles from VHI on Repetitive Strain Injury:

First one
Second one

Read them ... and HEED THEM!

Legal, Medical, Political and Financial Jargon - Help is at hand!

Here are some excellent resources from the National Adult Literacy Agency that may help with some legal, political or financial terms that come up when you are interpreting.

A Plain English Guide to Citizenship Terms

A Plain English Guide to Financial Terms (with involvement from my old employers EBS! :) )

A plain English Guide to political terms

A Plain English Guide to Legal Terms

This Health Literacy Pack may also help when researching some basic facts about medical situations and settings.

RSI and Occupational Injury for SLIs

HI there,

This is the first very rough posting on what will hopefully be a regularly-updated blog!

Here's a link to get us started:

Health and Safety Document from AVLIC


Interesting reading. All about RSI / Overuse Syndrome among interpreters.