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The Library Services for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing is a statewide special library dedicated to meeting the information and accessibility needs of the deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind communities, as well as meeting the information needs about hearing loss to all Tennesseans.
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An instructional set intended as an educational tool for interpreters and interpreter trainees in the medical setting. It explains, in general terms, certain tests, procedures, pre- and post-operative instructions, admission forms, patient advocate roles, and powers of attorney. These tapes were originally designed to assist medical personnel in obtaining the necessary information to admit and diagnose problems affecting their deaf patients, before...
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Presents scenarios focusing on interpreters functioning in the pharmacy setting. Scenes on getting and refilling prescriptions, on understanding terminology, on asthma, on blood pressure issues, on diabetes and on osteoporosis are designed to accompany a study packet and materials available at the following two on-line websites: www.stkate.edu/interpreting or www.dijiterp.com/TakeMeds. All materials presented on the project can be practiced in snippets...
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Work on skills by understanding and translating ASL vocabulary, sentences, and idioms from two deaf ASL professors, Gilda Toby Ganezer and Avery Posner, along with certified ASL interpreter, April Starks. There are fourteen quizzes with seven multiple choice questions per quiz. The program is best for every ASL student, interpreter trainee, interpreter, teacher, and ASL enthusiast when it comes to fine-tuning receptive and translation skills.
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"Taking and giving feedback can be stressful. Using humor, Maureen gives advice that can benefit students and new practitioners, as well as seasoned professionals. ... A stimulus piece is used to compare what one might expect to see during a transliteration compared to what one might see in interpreting. Taped in spoken English with interpreters on screen during the workshop, this DVD provides practical suggestions for feedback sessions, task analysis...
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Work on skills by understanding and translating ASL vocabulary, sentences, and idioms from two deaf ASL professors, Gilda Toby Ganezer and Avery Posner, along with certified ASL interpreter, April Starks. There are fourteen quizzes with seven multiple choice questions per quiz. The program is best for every ASL student, interpreter trainee, interpreter, teacher, and ASL enthusiast when it comes to fine-tuning receptive and translation skills.
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"The authors have been developing the demand control schema (DC-S) and their practice-profession approach to community interpreting since 1995. With its early roots pertaining to occupational health in the interpreting field, DC-S has evolved into a holistic work analysis framework which guides interpreters in their development of ethical and effective decision-making skills. Adapted from Robert Karasek's demand control theory, this textbook is the...
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"An off-the-grid village in the Southwest is preparing to celebrate their juice harvest. Their friend Wolf helps by bringing the juice to the city to sell, and upon his return, the annual celebration kicks off. Small One is responsible for alerting the village of Wolf's return but will be he remember the complicated directions?" -- container
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There are a number of differences in discourse patterns between American Sign Language (ASL) and English. These differences pose challenges for sign language interpreters. Interpreters need to recognize these patterns int he source language in order to render effectively the meaning in the target language. This CD-ROM provides opportunities to practice interpreting these discourse patterns between English and ASL. Stimulus materials in both are...
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Deaf machining instructor Terry Dockter takes the viewer on a detailed ASL tour of the machine shop at the Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind. Intended for interpreters who are either Deaf or able to hear, this 2.5 hour 2-disk set includes an introduction to the Lighthouse, demonstrations of machines in operation, extensive ASL instruction on machining practice for interpreters, specific shop vocabulary and classifiers used in the Lighthouse Machine...
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Intended to present and provide support to interpreters and programs who want to explore interactions which occur in the emergency department of a hospital. The scenario on this DVD shows a deaf patient in the emergency room with symptoms related to the cardiovascular system. It is formatted to allow one to work from the presentation pausing the project when necessary giving the opportunity to learn about functioning as an interpreter in an emergency...
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"As interpreter and ASL evaluators ourselves, we understood how and why a high number of interpreter trainees, advanced ASL students and individuals have difficulties knowing how to maintain message equivalency just because of difficulty to follow different meaning and CORRECT signs for the SAME English spelled word. Benefits from this film are: Learn how to avoid common errors translating homonyms in ASL ; Each homonym will come with multiple helpful...
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"As interpreter and ASL evaluators ourselves, we understood how and why a high number of interpreter trainees, advanced ASL students and individuals have difficulties knowing how to maintain message equivalency just because of difficulty to follow different meaning and CORRECT signs for the SAME English spelled word. Benefits from this film are: Learn how to avoid common errors translating homonyms in ASL ; Each homonym will come with multiple helpful...
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"As interpreter and ASL evaluators ourselves, we understood how and why a high number of interpreter trainees, advanced ASL students and individuals have difficulties knowing how to maintain message equivalency just because of difficulty to follow different meaning and CORRECT signs for the SAME English spelled word. Benefits from this film are: Learn how to avoid common errors translating homonyms in ASL ; Each homonym will come with multiple helpful...
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This presentation provides the framework of DECIDE to aid in making solid ethically-based decisions. With the addition of a mechanism on the NIC to test interpreter's ethical decision-making knowledge and skills, interpreters are finding that what had previously been thought of as a more intuitive process is difficult to articulate. This framework provides the foundation to externalize and articulate the decisions needing to be made to arrive at a...
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Designed to guide interpreters for the deaf through the process of interpreting the booking process in a jail setting. Included are considerations on how to prepare for entering the facility and what to expect in the interpreting situation itself. The process is very standardized, so scenarios presented give individuals access to questions that will be asked and will convey a general sense of how the staff will realt to the inmate. Both consecutive...
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