Wednesday, February 07, 2007
A Note Re: Deaf Constituents
Did anyone notice the recent announcement regarding effforts by ANC 6A to get an ASL interpreter? Personally, I think this is a great move. We certainly have a great number of deaf/hard of hearing residents. This is another reason that (in my mind at least) ANC 6A continues to represent the front line on ANC progress. It is surely something I will explore with ANC 5B (at the least I will mention it at the next Committee of the Whole, and send out some feelers in the deaf community). It might also be something that ANC 6C should consider.
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A couple of years ago, I used an interpreter for a project I was presenting. There is a school somewhere in DC where folks learn how to sign. Someone in my group actually contacted them, and believe it or not, several students volunteered to sign our presentation. Of course we only needed one. But the woman in my group that found the interpreter said that they had lots of folks willing to volunteer to do our presentations. Apparently they put it on their resume as a sort of 'internship'.
That might be something to consider. It's free, it helping young folks develop their skills, and just enhances the community overall.
I wish I could remember the name of the institute...
Oh yeah! I remember she said she simply looked in the phonebook to find the interpreter.
My memory is s-l-o-w.....
Hey, that's a correlation! If you pop up your collar, you're memory starts to worsen! :op
if we're really going to benefit the community, why don't we get a jive translator as well?
a human version of this site
www.rinkworks.com/dialect
Gallaudet University has an interpreting service (http://gis.gallaudet.edu/). I believe Trinity University also has an interpreting program whose students volunteer. Besides those two options, there are a couple of interpreting companies.
When you’ve got to have a serious conversation, it’s best to have an interpreter at hand who knows what he/she is doing. It's good to know that courts take interpreter training seriously, and that there are qualified, professional interpreting services available for most languages.Luckily, I can't see machines taking over the jobs of human translators in the near future, as they have done with so many other professions (remember telephone operators?)
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