Tag: community

An ASL-English interpreter joins the #IntJC Twitter forum

If you have never participated in an Interpreting Journal Club forum on Twitter (hashcode #IntJC), I suggest you give it a try. The last forum was on March 31, and it was the first one I ever participated in. They would love to have more signed language interpreters participate with the spoken language interpreters. The…

April 4, 2012
Why I split my eclectic blog into five specialized blogs

For 16 years, I tried to combine my personal and professional lives into one blog (“website” for the first 10 years). I combined my various professions into that one blog, too. It got so broad and wide-ranging I called it Daniel Greene’s Blog-o-rama. Why did I do this? I figured I was a Renaissance man…

March 29, 2012
Why don’t we call ourselves interpreters for the Hearing?

I mean, Hearing people are the ones who hire us, right? Hearing people need us to interpret for them because they are not fluent in sign language, and most of the time, Hearing people foot the bill. So why do we so often side with our Deaf consumers? We signed-spoken language interpreters probably all have…

March 14, 2012
Why take the patient in before the interpreter?

https://twitter.com/#!/danielgreene/status/170585388174409728

February 17, 2012
Spoke to Deaf interpreters about ethical business practices today

https://twitter.com/#!/danielgreene/status/160980607948689409

January 12, 2012