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- How did you first learn Sign Language?
- I took a beginning sign language class, called Dactylology, at a college of the Bible in Mpls. MN, in the late 1960's. The class was taught by the college librarian who had two deaf nephews and she offered to teach sign language at the college.
- Which ITP did you attend?
- Did not attend an ITP.
- What is your favorite type of interpreting assignment?
- Educational interpreting at either the high school or college leve.
- Do you currently hold any certifications? If so, which ones?
- Working on it, EIPA Level 3
- Would you like to mentor another interpreter?
- Yes
- Would you like to be mentored by another interpreter?
- Yes
- City
- Omaha
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- NEBRASKA
- Birthday
- November 10, 1949
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A few of points that stuck out for me were Dennis Cokely's comments. He felt that RID should be influencing the VRS industry and not the other way around. RID ought to be setting the guidelines for VRS settings and not company policies that are for profit oriented (money). Also, Dennis mentioned that he felt that interpreting agencies should also be accountable to RID. In addition, during the same forum people seemed to be in agreement that the new interpreters who are recent graduates of ITP programs should be required to work 1000 hours before being able to sit for the NIC test. The reasoning behind this is there are many graduates gaining their NIC Advanced or NIC Master with no real world experience. (This one mentee I mentored a year and a half ago and graduated a year ago just got her NIC Master - I was shocked - and she is still so wet behind the ears. My belief her having a NIC Master is a misrepresentation of her abilities.) The same commenter mentioned that she had a concern over a workshop presenter who advertised he "cracked the code for passing the NIC Interview." Do we really want people who "cracked the code" or do we want people of quality passing the NIC. Whoa!
Overall, good conference.
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