Summer Symposium
Thank You for Joining Us This Year! Please check back next year for more information related to our 5th Annual Summer Symposium!
We offered 3 tracks this year:
ASL Immersion
Instructors: Alma Bournazian, Kelly Kim, and Paul Schreyer
Open to all students of ASL, even if you have never taken an ASL class before! Participants will be grouped to fit experience/skill level. Activities include structured classroom instruction, as well as various activities in the community.
NIC Prep
Instructors: Dr. Dennis Cokely and Dr. Rico Peterson
Instructional Facilitators: Jackie Emmart, Nicole Crossman, and Angela Herbert
Participants in this workshop will exercise the same critical thinking skills required in the NIC certification process. The workshop offers a strategic approach to thinking about and responding to the challenges of the skills and interview portions of the NIC. Much of our work will be done in small, varying groups of 3-5 students who will work alternately on the effective presentation of their interpreting and interview skills. A faculty facilitator who has successfully completed the NIC process will lead each group, affording participants a high caliber of individual attention.
Foundations of Medical/Substance Abuse Interpreting
Instructors: Paul Hostovsky and Damon Timm
This track is for both new and experienced interpreters preparing to (or beginning to) work in the medical field and/or in substance abuse recovery settings. Participants will learn through lecture, discussion, and group activity, using hands-on interpreting exercises of both frozen and spoken texts, alongside case scenarios.Participants have the option to partake in the full week’s activities for $375 or only one of the topics for a reduced rate of $225.
- Medical Settings
(Mon & Tues: 9am to 5pm, Weds- 9am to 1pm)
Foundations of Interpreting in Medical Settings: participants can expect to gain a better framework/schematic for working in a variety of medical settings, uncovering the various layers of role, ethics, expectation, language, and safety of the medical interpreter. Designed for new and working interpreters, participants will leave with a better understanding and higher level of comfort interpreting medical situations.- Substance Abuse Recovery Settings
(Weds. 12pm to 5pm, Thurs. & Fri: 9am to 5pm)
Foundations of Interpreting in Substance Abuse Recovery Settings: "It works if you work it," they say in AA. How do deaf people in recovery "work AA?" The oral tradition is alive and well at 12 Step meetings and recovery programs where storytelling is the best medicine. How does a knowledge of these personal stories, and of ASL storytelling structures, assist us in interpreting the message of Recovery? Through lecture, discussion, and a panel of interpreters and deaf people, we will consider the collective wisdom, literature, and jargon of AA and the 12 Step model in general.
CEUs and ACETs credits will be offered and sponsored by RIEC.
