Tag: sign language

  • Organizer’s attitude toward deaf, interpreters defeats her

    The blog post “How Trying to Provide Deaf Interpreters for a Camp Bit Me in the Ass” paints the conference organizer as the victim, but I’m afraid it was her attitude toward interpreters and the deaf that defeated her, and it is the interpreting profession and deaf consumers that stand to lose by her misrepresentation.…

  • Workshops I taught in 2010 and look forward to teaching in 2011

    I thought of doing a Review of 2010 and Preview of 2011 about several of my life’s activities, but that was too overwhelming, so I decided to blog about it in segments. This one is about one of the most important activities to me: interpreter training. In December 2009, I wrote a Review of 2009…

  • Happy Thanksgiving in a variety of regional ASL Signs

    On this day after Thanksgiving 2010, I would like to share with you a variety of regional signs I have seen for this holiday. Do you have other signs for Thanksgiving? Please create a Video Response to share them. Thanks!

  • Singing & signing “Imagine” on John Lennon’s 70th birthday

    This is my singing & signing contribution to the celebration of what would be John Lennon’s 70th birthday. Upon mkrajnak’s suggestion, I sang the soundtrack and did an ASL interpretation over it so that the grammar and rhythm of the signing would be more natural than if I sang and signed at the same time.

  • The -isms & -ists of Oralism & Oralists

    Since so many people responded on my blog to the first video about this topic, “Re Oralism vs Speaking” that I embedded in a blog post, I have been responding and thinking about this issue. One thing that stands out for me is the meaning of the suffices -ism and -ist. These can simply mean…