Tag: Deaf
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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…
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A flash of ASL but no captioning? Oh, the irony.
https://twitter.com/#!/danielgreene/status/177537181559169024
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Why I don’t tell people I’m a sign language interpreter
Instead of telling them I’m a sign language interpreter, I like to screw with people’s heads. I love to see whether they react differently to “interpreter” as opposed to “sign language interpreter” or “interpreter for the Deaf.” When I tell people I’m an interpreter, they inevitable ask what language. I can then say, “Sign language,…
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Why would Deaf people think interpreting is easy?
I pose the question respectfully. I understand that not all Deaf people think interpreting is easy, but I know several Deaf people who never realized how hard interpreting was until they tried to do it themselves. Case in point, a Deaf colleague of mine recently wrote: I remember attending a CDI [Certified Deaf Interpreter] workshop with…
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Volunteering for deaf-blind interpreting and SSP
https://twitter.com/#!/danielgreene/status/175972399852945408
Daniel Greene 