Louisville, KY!
 
0.9 CEUs Pending (0.3 ethics focused)
 
Friday, June 5, 530p-900p
Teaming and Support: Feedback on Assignment
It is critical for colleagues to have the ability to work together as members of a team while interpreting. Observation and feedback are important elements of collaborative teamwork. Mastering the skill of depersonalizing feedback is
critical for trust building, support, and open communication. Since we are often placed settings that are both physically and cognitively demanding we must be able to rely upon our colleague for support. The words we choose when providing support and feedback to our colleagues can encourage or discourage them; therefore, utilizing specific terms and phrases lends to the feedback being expressed and received in a more work focused manner. This
training will address team interpreting, positive regard, trust as a professional courtesy and utilizing the open model of interpreting. Participants will be provided with an opportunity to expressively interpret then provide observational commentary using the concepts and language of the workshop. 
 
Saturday, June 6, 900a-1200p
Ethics – Where Do I Stand?
Do you ever feel like making an ethical decision is a little bit like walking through a minefield? We often wonder if we have a responsibility to “let go” of our personal beliefs when we work as an interpreter. This workshop will help us identify the criteria that determine whether a genuine conflict exists. Each participant will consider ways to guide their individual decision-making process. It is important to recognize that our personal beliefs and values do make a difference when we encounter ethical dilemmas. Yet, many of us have been left wondering if the decisions we made were right or wrong; good or bad. We will recognize what it means to hold a sacred trust as professionals and how we maintain that trust. Throughout the training we will examine and discuss ethical scenarios, these open discussions will help us determine how to prevent ethical explosions from rocking our world!
 
Annual Member Meeting
1215p-215p
 
Saturday, June 6, 230p-530p
Expansion Techniques: Crafting Your Space
American Sign Language and spoken English are very different languages and to achieve message equivalency interpreters must incorporate expansion techniques into their interpretation. The seven recognized expansion
techniques are: contrasting, faceting, reiteration, utilizing 3d space, explaining by example, couching, or scaffolding, and describe then do. The goal of expansion techniques is to improve clarity – they are used in order to make implicit information in the source language more explicit in the target language. In this workshop we will unpack all of the expansion techniques, but we will focus our energy on utilizing 3D space, which is  invariably coupled with classifiers. If interpreters are unfamiliar with expansion techniques, the resulting work will demonstrate unnatural phrasing, incorrect grammatical structures, and errors in production. During this workshop  interpreters will be exposed to all of the expansion techniques, yet we will focus our energy on correctly using classifiers, 3D-space, and scaffolding all
found in the accurate use of American Sign Language.