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Interpreters work diligently to gloss their interpretations in such a way that the words presented are grammatically accurate. What interpreters often forget is that their Hearing consumers matter too! It matters how we approach them, how we interact with them, how we present our consumers to them, and it matters how we represent them in our interpretations. Those concepts are so often overlooked and our focus often lies in a translation, but our time on sight all matters, and sign choice and sentence structure are only two pieces of a very large puzzle. This workshop wants to perfect your soft skills and your performance skills. It covers the gambit of topics from our first hello, to our presentation and when it comes to presentation this online workshop takes an unexpected turn. Our Hearing consumers work diligently on their speeches, speech patterns, pauses, points of emphasis, comic relief, the strength or softness of their voice, their style, their audience engagement etc. This workshop will start with logistics, but will wrap up with a significant amount of hands up time practicing the platform interpreting scenarios from wedding speeches, to funerals, to concerts, to comedy. If you want to hone your skills in consumer interaction, or consumer representation, this is the workshop for you!
Interpreters and interpreting students will be impacted by these new ideas and reminders of how to effectively provide services in a way to benefit all our consumers!
Workshop Details:
Approximately 3 hours of video, + breaks.
Educational Objectives:
At this close of this workshop, interpreters will be able to:
1) Recognize the appropriate interaction between interpreters and Hearing consumers.
2) Recognize the reason affect modeling is critical in our presentation.
3) Recognize the unique presentation methodology of Hearing presenters.
4) Understand how to emulate the unique and critical aspects of individual Hearing presenters.