Context Interpreting - Meeting for Interpreters

Message forwarded from Lorraine Leeson, CDS:



"Dear students, colleagues,

I received an email from Context Interpreting (based in Galway) who are keen to meet students about to graduate from the CDS programme and recent graduates. In this context, a representative from Context will visit CDS on Thursday next (30th April) and present/discuss their agency's work in Room B from 1-2. All current interpreting students and practicing interpreters are welcome to attend.


Some details about the company's work are listed below.



Best wishes,


Lorraine


Lorraine,

my colleague Anna passed your message on to me.

I would be delighted to give a presentation to your students on our company, our approach to interpreting, our training objectives and vision.

While I have good availability over the next 2 weeks, I'd probably prefer to meet before the Bank Holiday, if possible i.e. next week.

Our company was established by active conference interpreters in 1987. From the early 90ies on, we cooperated with a number of Sign Language agencies, over the past 5 years or so mainly with Evelyn Conroy. As I have a background in both conference interpreting and training, I combined these two strands to provide training for community interpreters with a view to having our training programmes accredited and audited by external authorities. As part of this medium term strategy we set up the not-for-profit entity Interpreter Training Ireland which is spear headed by senior interpreters and interested community activists.

In the interim, we are funding most of the training from Context resources and continue to develop, test and fine-tune our syllabus.

Over the last 3 years, we provided over 1000 man hours of training each year to over 300 interpreters.

While we have excellent resources for a large number of spoken languages and a smart bespoke web application to manage these, we have not been able to provide Sign Language interpreters for each incoming request.

The difficulties we met with are mainly in the area of resource restrictions, at times combined with a lack of awareness regarding the environment of the legal sector and its particular constraints.

We have however always looked to the Sign Language sector for cooperation and mutual strategic goals in training and service provision.

Hence, I would very much welcome meeting with you and your students to explore potential synergies.

Please let me know what date and time would suit and which aspects you would like me to focus on.

Thanks and regards,

Ulrike



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Ulrike Fuehrer
Head of Interpreting

Context
Oranmore
County Galway
Ireland
t: +353 91 790255
m: +353 87 4105779
f: +353 91 790514
e: ulrike@context.ie

www.context.ie

SLIS Accreditation Process - Closing Date Extended

The closing date for receipt of applications for the SLIS Accreditation Process has been extended to

8^th May 2009

to facilitate two information sessions for prospective applicants

as follows:

Wednesday 29^th April 2009

7.30pm

Dublin Deaf Club, Drumcondra

and

Friday 1^st May 2009

7.00pm

Deaf Community Centre, Limerick

www.slis.ie

SLIANZ Conference, 3 - 5 July, Wellington - Registration now open

ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND AGM
Victoria University, Wellington
Fri 3rd - Sun 5th July 2009

“Interpreting in Specialist Settings”

Powhiri and panel discussion

We are excited to begin the 2009 conference with a powhiri (a traditional Maori welcome ceremony) and kapu ti (afternoon tea) on Friday.
A panel discussion on Maori Deaf people and sign language interpreters will take place from 4-6 pm. The panel will include representatives of the Maori Deaf community and trilingual (Te Reo Maori / English / NZSL) interpreters.


Keynote Presenters

• Dr. Christopher Stone and Robert Adam (UK) – Deaf / hearing interpreter teams
• Jeff McWhinney (UK) – Global Issues re. Video relay / remote interpreting

Draft programme

A draft programme and presenters' biographies will be available from our website soon. Topics will include:

• interpreting in court settings
• role shift and beyond
• quality of life and access to interpreters
• training updates
• signs used in religious settings

Conference dinner / skills auction
On Saturday evening we will also host a conference dinner and Skills Auction. Auction proceeds will be set aside for WASLI (World Association of Sign Language Interpreters).


Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting will take place on Sunday, 9 – 11 a.m.


conference@slianz.org.nz
www.slianz.org.nz

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

Having a Hearing Companion

WASLI Task Groups

Following the WASLI Executive Board meeting last November, it was agreed to set up 2 Task Groups to deal with 2 important priorities.

1. Interpreter Education and Training

The goal of the task group is to develop guidance to assist countries wanting to develop interpreter education and training in their country. The person taking the lead on this Task Group is Dr Deb Russell. If you are interested in joining this Task Group please contact him at northamerica@wasli.org

2. Interpreter Certification and Assessment

The goal of the task group is to develop recommendations to guide countries in the development and implementation of procedures to determin who is qualified to be a Sign Language Interpreter, in order to protect public welfare. The person taking the lead on this Task Group is Dr Daniel Burch.

If you are interested in joining this Task Group please contact him at treasurer@wasli.org

1st Conference of Latin America Sign Language Interpreters - Bogotá, Colombia

1st Conference of Latin America Sign Language Interpreters

I Encuentro Latinoamericano de Intérpretes de Lengua de Señas

Bogota, Colombia

7-10 July 2009

ANISCOL http://www.aniscol.org/

6th Conference of the Deaf of Latin America

6th Encuentro Latinamericano de Sordos

7-10 July 2009

FENASCOL http://www.fenascol.org.co/

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


WASLI is committed to the development of the profession of sign language interpreting worldwide 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

MALAYSIA INTERPRETER EDUCATION SEMINARS

MALAYSIA INTERPRETER EDUCATION SEMINARS

22nd Aug – Tue 25th Aug, 2009

Presenter : Dr Debra Russell
Director, Western Canadian Centre of Studies in Deafness

David Peikoff Chair of Deafness Studies
University of Alberta, Canada

Debra Russell (background)
Dr Debra Russell is a Canadian nationally certified interpreter, maintaining an activeinterpreting and consulting practice. Debraparticipates in several interpreting organizations at the provincial, national andinternational levels and has served as the President of AVLIC. As an interpreter educator, she has taught across Canada, and haspresented workshops and papers throughoutthe United States, Europe and Southeast Asia.She holds the David Peikoff Chair of DeafnessStudies at the University of Alberta, and has also played a key role in the development of several interpreter assessment tools

Who should attend?
Malaysian Sign LanguageInterpreters (hearing/Deaf) who:
1. are actively interpreting in varioussettings (corporate, religious,freelancing, educational, etc)
2.feel their deliveries are losing impact
3.have formal, little or no formaleducation/training in interpreting
4.are prepared to “re learn and un-learn”
5.wish to enhance their skills and upgradetheir knowledge
6.are also in the teaching profession
7.are seeking ongoing skill developmentthrough peer mentorship activities


Also open to non-Malaysian Sign Language Interpreters

VENUE : SAITO COLLEGE SDN BHD
No 18, Jalan Tengah, New Town Centre,Section 52,
46200 Petaling Jaya, MALAYSIA

Organisers: RC Deaf Missions Malaysia Sdn Bhd

For Enquiries on Fees, etc, please contact :
agnes@rcdeafmissionsmalaysia.com

mario@rcdeafmissionsmalaysia.com
rcdeafmissionsmalaysia@gmail.com

Agnes +6019 261 9920
Mario +6013 350 5688

This seminar is brought to you by RC Deaf Missions Malaysia in collaboration with SAITO Collegecollaboration

Call for International Sign Interpreters - OUTGAMES Copenhagen, Denmark

WORLD OUTGAMES 2009

World Outgames is an international event for the body, the mind, and the spirit.

We celebrate the talents and contributions of homosexual, bi-sexual and transgender men and women from every corner of the globe.

World Outgames will be held from 25 July - 2 August 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

http://www.copenhagen2009.org/

We are very happy, that many of you are interested to come to Copenhagen.

The Sign Language Interpreter service will be in 4 groups:

1. Deaf International Signs Interpreters

2. Hearing Feeders


3. Hearing International Signs Interpreters


4. Hearing Danish Sign Language Interpreters






The structure is:


* voluntary work


* you will get free boarding during your stay in Copenhagen - (and mealthese days you are working)


* you will be part of two days of workshop (22nd July - 23rd July)


* you will cover your transportation to Denmark yourself.


* as a volunteer it is demanded that you will work more than 24 hours duringthis week, but it is our (my and Charlotte ­ the organizers) goal that youwill work about 25 hours (inclusive preparations).



For further information contact: Bo Hårdell bo@haardell.dk

4th World Congress on Mental Health and Deafness, ‘A Life to be Lived’

Join us at the 4th World Congress on Mental Health and Deafness, ‘A Life to be Lived’, 27-30 October 2009 Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Australia Earlybird Registrations and Call for Papers are now open!

Visit http://www.mhd2009.org/ to register now. Don’t miss out! Refer this link to your friends and contacts who are interested in the issues of Mental Health and Deafness. To contact us for further information, trade displays, or to become a sponsor email:info@mhd2009.org

Quick links: Register http://mhd2009.org/product

Submit an abstract/paper http://mhd2009.org/call_for_papers