How to Improve an ASL-to-English Interpretation

How to Improve an ASL-to-English Interpretation

1. By Brittany Kearfott 17 November 2016

2. When interpreting remember

   • Was English used in such a way that the hearing consumer understood it clearly?
   • Was the meaning intended by the Deaf consumer conveyed?

3. Improving English Skills

   • Increasing Vocabulary
   • Keeping a Vocab notebook
   • Keeping a Grammar Notebook
   • Monitoring the use of one's own English
   • Falling in Love with English
   • Working on English Interpretations from Pictures or Stories Without Words

4. Presenting a Clear vocal Message

   • Vassallo
   • High-pitched
   • Nasal tone
   • Principles
     • Verbal
     • Vocal

5. Improving Presentation Skills

   • Handling Errors
   • Avoiding Negativity
   • Taking Deep Breathes
   • Not Apologizing
   • Being Will Prepared
   • Picturing Success

6. Skill Development

   • Cycle of Learning
     • Unconscious Competence
     • Conscious Competence
     • Conscious Incompetence
     • Unconscious Incompetence

7. Personality Traits and Skill Development

   • Internalizer
   • Externalizer

8. Creating and Prioritizing Goals

   • Kelly: Goal Setting is 1st in Skill Development
   • Isham: Self-directed Growth- Goal Setting, Time Frames, Written Records, Feedback, and Guidance
   • Gordon: Goals consist of a desired outcome of a behavior and communicate the will to improve.
   • After seleceted it needs to be prioritized. Everything cannot be fixed at once. Written in order of importance.

9. Practicing

10. Seeking a Mentor

11. Working with Deaf Consumers

    • The Deaf presenter and interpreter seeing themselves as partners who have different roles, but the responsibility for success is shared.
    • The interpreter knowing what is needed in order to do his or her best work.
    • The presenter needing to understand his or her own presentation style.
    • The presenter needing to provide the interpreter with an outline, handouts, copies of overheads and other materials in advance so the interpreter can review and study them.
    • The interpreter and presenter meeting to discuss the outcomes the presenter is hoping to accomplish.
    • The interpreter and presenter discussing how the interpreter can signal a request for clarification and additional time to complete an interpretation, or how to manage interaction with the audience.

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