Author: Christopher Tester

I am thrilled to announce that I will be presenting “Deaf Interpreters: Past, Present & Future” at LaGuardia Community College in November and December. The training materials are provided by the NCIEC (National Consortium of Interpreter Education Center) where they developed 6 part training series.

Part 1 will be focused a few topics:

1) Historical evolution of Deaf Interpreting

2) Foundational, Language, Culture & Communication competencies

3) Language, Culture, Oppression & the Deaf world Community

4) Deaf Interpreter or Advocate

REGISTRATION and DATES:

Day 2 at the Deaf Action Center in Shreveport, Louisiana! I presented 3 of 6 webcast series for Deaf Advocacy yesterday, which focused on Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you are curious about the Deaf Action Center, check out their website: http://www.deafactioncenter.org/

The Webcast series is titled: ADA Help-Me How?

Here’s a few pictures of the greenroom, where I am basically living in for the week!

This article is written by a hearing interpreter and a writer of “Reading Between the Signs.” Anna Mindess explores her own experience and shares her perspective on the social responsibility that hearing interpreters may have on working with Deaf Interpreters here in the United States.

Check it out! : http://www.streetleverage.com/2014/08/are-hearing-interpreters-responsible-to-pave-the-way-for-deaf-interpreters/

I am headed down to New Mexico to present: Outside of Courtroom: is it legal? At the NMRID state conference. I’m looking forward to meeting everyone there and check out Albuquerque. Only there for a night!

We need to see a wider range of research and perspectives on cochlear implants (CI). It’s truly hard to find an unbiased research today. But this article, while the author shows special awe for CI, also shares new findings of the impact of CI on children’s learning abilities. effects of CI on the brain.

This article reflects on the current media fascination with sign language and while it is good to have a more visual presence within the media, they talk about how it has actually been perpetuating the idea that ASL is not a full language but rather gestures, pantomime, etc. At the benefit of the non-deaf audience. There has been limited focus on the deaf population whose language is American Sign Language.

ASL is not performance art.

I will be presenting a workshop and interpreting at the Colorado state RID conference. Lovely view here at the airport.