Sign Language Interpreters: Discover & Recover an Enduring Legacy
Temas
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I am from Canada and we have a way of opening a meeting, which is to thank and recognize that we are standing on ground previously owned by the Aboriginal people. I also want to open this talk by thanking and recognizing the Deaf community, who taught me their language, culture and their experience of seeing the world. So thank you to my local Deaf community and the communities across Canada. I am fortunate, as I have the opportunity to travel widely in Canada and throughout the world, which means many Deaf communities have taught me, while sharing their experiences with me. Thank you to the CODAs, many of you in this room have taught me about your life experience, and I thank each of you. We have one CODA here today from Canada, Janice, thank you for sharing your insights and helping me envision what each of us can do. I never attended or graduated from an interpreter training program – the Deaf community taught me how to interpret, and they still do teach me, helping me understand how to match what they expect, prefer, and want to have happen with interpreters from their point of view. Based on that experience, I share this talk.