David Quinto-Pozos

Texas

Workshop Topics: Discourse
Interpreting Process/Skills
Specialty Setting: Educational

Workshop Titles:
• Fingerspelling Production and Perception
• Interpreting for foreign language courses: Strategies for success
• Perspective in ASL

David G. Quinto, CT, received a B.S. degree in Sign Language Interpretation/Religious Studies from the University of New Mexico in 1992 and a masters degree in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin and is working on his dissertation. The topic of the dissertation is "Language contact between Mexican Sign Language (LSM) and American Sign Language (ASL) along the U.S.-Mexico border." David also worked as a full-time interpreter at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID)/Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, New York from 1993-1996. Currently, he is an adjunct faculty instructor in the Interpreter Preparation Program at Austin Community College and chair of the Texas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (TCDHH) Trilingual Task Force.