AIDB Southeastern Interpreter Guidance Network - SIGN

REMINDER!!! Interpreters in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana are three of the states served by the IRIS Project! Several interpreters who are participants in the SIGN program have participated and have raved about the experience!!

IRIS: CORE Initiative Rural Interpreter Training- Applications open Apply for IRIS's final cohort! Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email Applications are open! University of Northern Colorado's IRIS Project is looking for a final cohort of working Deaf, C

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Self-Directed Track - CATIE Center Project Level Up has created a self-directed track that is open to anyone who wants to take their abilities to the next level related to interpreting in healthcare settings. You could be a certified or non certified interpreter, a working professional, or a lifelong learner, to name a few examples.....

This recommendation is bizarre. Why would signs need to be paired with oral words? Do Spanish words need to be paired with English words in order for babies to learn them?

Image description: Can we please stop telling parents to “pair the sign with the oral word” when exposing their baby to a signed language? Babies aren’t born preferring English. Just because it would help YOU to pair a sign you don’t know with an English word, doesn’t mean we need to do it for babies. It’s not like signs only gain meaning when there’s an oral word linked to them. Signs are meaningful on their own.

Looking for a taste of the awesome programming offered by the Bilingual Mediation Center? Join one of their awesome 3-hour seminars focusing on interpreting process throughte lens of the Integrated Model of Interpreting (IMI). If you are registered witht he SIGN program, all you have to do is go directly to the registration link for any BMC event!

3 IMI Seminars Spend 3 hours with us Got 3 hours? Register today for these IMI 3-hour seminars. The definition of interpreting is "conveying meaning between people who use signed or spoken languages." This 3-hour se