As I’m sure many of you know, ASLized is a great website aimed at promoting and preserving ASL. They have a number of videos which include ASL stories, documentaries, poetry, linguistics and more.
Here is one of my favorite videos about the more positive terms doctors and hospitals can use when they have identified a child as deaf:
Carolyn Ball is spreading the word about civility and how it plays an important role in our field. Ball is the Executive Director of the VRS Interpreting Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah. She recently conducted a symposium on civility and leadership for educators who train ASL interpreters.
The following article discusses the topic of civility for ASL interpreters. It does a great job interviewing people in the community, Deaf individuals, interpreters and ASL teachers. I also loved that they made an effort to use the term “deaf and hard of hearing”, as many articles don’t.
Civility matters for ASL interpreters, and everyone else
The following article is written by Carolyn Ball herself and provides her perspective about why civility is so critical for us as interpreters.
What Role Does Civility Play in the Sign Language Interpreting Profession?
This is SUCH an amazing blog. Charles Katz produces interpretations of common childrens’ books. Each book has 4 interpretations; Word: Text only signed word for word, Literal: Text only translated into ASL, Free: Text and images translated into ASL and Gesture: Text and images into visual gestures/mime. So far he has produced these interpretations for 13 books, including Where the Wild Things Are, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Love You Forever and many more!
Here is the “Free” Interpretation of Where the Wild Things Are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ABHahcQXyeE
Thanks to Kelley for her continued contributions to the blog!
A public safety service, Smart911, allows Deaf and hard of hearing users to create a free online profile with all their important information. If the person ever needs to contact 9-1-1 this information will be automatically displayed to dispatchers, saving valuable time. Check out the article here.
Great Blog created by an ASL/English Interpreting Program Professor at WOU. “Connecting the Classroom to the Community and the Community to the Classroom”. Check it out!
NAD President Chris Wagner shares Board activity since the 2012 NAD Conference in Louisville, KY, announces two new Board appointments Tawny Holmes and Joshua Beckman, and the location of the next NAD Board meeting in the Bay Area, California from October 11-13, 2012.
This article includes a new research study from UO published in The Journal of Neuroscience. The article focuses on how the brain compensates when one of the senses is not present. One interesting discussion point in the article is the topic of cross-modal neuroplasticity, a phenomenon where the brain is able to re-organize itself to support other senses. The article notes that this change in the brain may be the reason some Deaf do not find hearing aids or cochlear implants helpful, because their brain has already re-wired to not include the auditory senses and to support others such as vision and touch.
A great article about the differences between how white and black people use sign language. Carolyn McCaskill, professor of Deaf studies at Gallaudet, is interviewed about her own experiences and about her research in the area. I also enjoy how the article goes on to explain the truth about common misconceptions people have about ASL. That many people believe it is a universal language or that it is a direct translation of spoken languages.
A young Deaf girl, Shaylee, and her Deaf dad retell their favorite parts from sleeping beauty. What a great way to learn and play in their native language!
Kids and dogs in the same article?? What could be better??