Betty Colonomos

Maryland

Workshop Topics: Assessment/Feedback/Mentorship, Deaf Interpreter Preparation, Discourse, Interpreting Process/Skills, Language Enhancement, Interpersonal Dynamics and Teamwork

Workshop Titles:
• Interpreting Processes and Practice: For Deaf Interpreters (3 segments)
• The Role of Affect in Message Equivalence
  
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Betty M. Colonomos is the oldest daughter of Deaf parents and a fluent ASL/English bilingual. She is Director of the Bilingual Mediation Center. Her academic training has been in Deaf Education/Speech Pathology (undergraduate), Counseling (graduate) and Linguistics (doctoral). Betty was awarded the Masters Comprehensive Skills Certificate (MCSC) from RID in 1980. Betty is well known as an educator of interpreters and language consultant. In addition to developing the most widely used model for teaching processes used in interpreting, she has consulted with schools and the legal system as an expert on linguistic and cultural issues impacting the Deaf Community. Through her center, she provides services in the area of instruction, consultation, BiBi programming, cross-cultural mediation, language assessment interpretation, translation, curriculum development.

Workshop Titles (continued from the top):

• Foundations of Interpreting Processes Series Parts I - VIII
• English Expansion for Interpreters
• Deaf Interpreters Working With Hearing Interpreters
• Team Interpreting, Part I and II