Good Resource for Country Signs

When I need to know country signs, this is the first place I go….

Mental Health Interpreting Workshop

Alabama’s Mental Health Interpreter Training Program has been scheduled for August 6-10, 2012 at Troy University in Montgomery.

A 40-hour course designed to provide a sound basis for interpreters to work effectively in mental health settings as part of a professional team. The course includes: Mental health systems and culture, Sources of Communication Breakdown Associated with Mental Illness and Treatment, Interpreters’ Roles, Tools, and Resources, Severe Language Dysfluency and Visual Gestural Communication/CDIs/Interpreters who are Deaf, Psychiatric Emergencies, Confidentiality Ethics and Laws, Support Groups and Community Mental Health Services, Psycholinguistic Errors and Demand Control Schema for Interpreting Applied to Mental Health.

PRESENTERS INCLUDE:
Bob Pollard, Robyn Dean, Roger Williams, Steve Hamerdinger, Charlene Crump, Brian McKenny, Shannon Reese, et. al.
http://www.mhit.org/

Recorded Conferences or Presentations….Good Practice!!

Interpreting.info is a website for spoken language interpretation (it’s okay…we can share information…smile).
There are presentations from TED Talks, Yale University, General Assembly of the United States among many others.
Check it out!!