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What's his face! uh... Who you gonna call?!

The InterpreTips today are all about name signs. What are they? How are they used? What do we do with them in our interpretation?

Name signs can be one of those hard concepts to interpret in a nice way. We'll discuss the awkwardness of it and figure out ways to improve.

Oddly enough this is one of the many elements of interpreting that Marty Taylor discusses in her "Blue books", Interpreting Skills: ASL to English.

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Happy New Year, 2024!!

Let's celebrate the new year and look back on 2023 and a bit into 2022. I look at how we can be better interpreters and colleagues within the communities we serve and our own signed language interpreting community.

And a special recognition to those friends and colleagues who have donated and supported me and the podcast from 2022 to 2024.

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Merry Christmas from my family.

This is a short reflection of the year and a moment of gratitude for having such great guests and listeners. Thank you all.

And our daughter, Juliana, has composed an impromptu song just for you. Enjoy.

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The FUTURE!!!??? It's impossible to know the future, so it is best to know... you.

We finish our conversation with Dr Marty Taylor. Through the insight of "word association" and looking from the past to the future of sign language interpreting, Marty gives us advice and perspective about what it means to be a signed language interpreter. Enjoy.

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"Young Whipper-snappers! Get off my lawn!"

Yes, each generation complains about the younger generations in some way. However, our guest, Dr Marty Taylor points out how we as sign language interpreters have adapted to the changes over the generations in our field.

In this episode, Marty shares her thoughts on how to create an interpreter training program today, how language deprivation experienced by the deaf community affects our work, how interpreting decades ago was vastly different than today, and much more.

Next week, my interview with Marty comes to a close.

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Sign Language Interpreters with Altitude?? No, ATTITUDE!

Marty Taylor and I discuss:

• ethics in the beginning of her career,
• attitude defined by ASL and English,
• spoken language interpreters differing perspectives,
• and how to use her books.

So much information to delight your cognitive powers. Next week we start with how Marty would start an interpreting degree program today.

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Life is full of adventures. Sometimes things just happen, and it's FUN!

Our guest is Dr Marty Taylor, an American-Canadian sign language interpreter. She was one of the first generation of academically-trained ASL/English interpreters as the U.S. transitioned from only CODA-generation of interpreters during the nation-wide establishment of interpreter education.

We learn how her journey started and evolved into her professional career and about those who supported her way.

Listen to this and the following episodes to learn more of her story, working conditions in the US, Canada, and about her research detailing sign language interpreting skills, and so much more.

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I don't talk much, but when I do... I have an expert opinion!

Robyn shares some insight into her research and how it can spring from the valuable conversations we have with colleagues. We learn more about how workshops are just a step in our ongoing education. And she wraps up with some great advice to save us some common headaches when working with the uninformed.

Listen during the "credits" to hear a little laughter at the end.

Next week...another experienced expert guest.

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Your Voice is Too Loud! You should let others speak.

In this part 3 of my series with Robyn K Dean, we look at how to improve our professional development on our own. That means, reflect on our practice, speak out about what we do and analyze it. But why is that so hard to do when we have so many workshops?

Robyn breaks it down for us. We discuss some interesting ideas of the dynamics involved with the workshop mentality that many sign language interpreters have.

Enjoy this and the last of the series next week. Until then...

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Wait, it's about you, not me! I get it.

In this episode, Dr Dean shares how Demand Control Schema applied to the signed language interpreting profession ...got out of control quickly. Yet, over time, it has coalesced into a textbook and a filter with which to look at the dynamics of our work.

This has lead her to the new focus of looking at signed language interpreting as a Practice Profession, which she touches on in this episode and the upcoming ones. Stay tuned!

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