Common Practices in Ethical Situations The interpreting profession is struggling to establish common practices and it is even more difficult to encourage practitioners to adopt such practices. Common practice does not mean uniform practice, but more or less the adherence to standard or professional norms. Consider the interpreting community – do we observe common practice […]

Ethical Decision Making and Interpreters Is your personal ethical code and your professional ethical code similar? Do you have an internalized process by which you arrive at ethical conclusions? Do you filter everything through the Code of Professional Conduct or do other factors influence your ethical process, such as Demand Control Schema, Right versus Right […]

This workshop will take participants on an adventure through etymologies of American Sign Language. Like Chinese characters are taught along with stories for each set of strokes as images, the same could be done for ASL. Signs and their meanings also have their unique history. To really begin to understand the richness of ASL we […]

The International Lutheran Deaf Association Conference and the Interpreted Ministry Conference will be happening in Elk Grove Village this summer. Look at their website for the schedule of workshops and activities.

The How and Why of Our Ethics It is important to know factors that influence your ethical decision-making process; it is common knowledge that we are clearly influenced by multiple factors. Some are the laws of the legal system, the Code of Professional Conduct, and individual workplace policies and procedures. However, this workshop suggests that […]

Providing a Spoken English interpretation for a Deaf presenter has some unique challenges. Suppose they open their story saying their family has three generations of Deafness, or maybe they discuss their oral education, and later explain that they learned ASL at a residential school and finally ending their story as a mainstreamed student – what […]

This workshop is designed to provide transparency for candidates who plan to take the entry level BEI evaluation. Elements of the test will be contextualized through a very brief history of the BEI development process. Topics will also include the Test of English Proficiency, as well as the components of the performance evaluation including Expressive […]