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"It's" is a contraction, which you can remember because of the apostrophe. Just as "can't" means "cannot," "it's" means "it is." It's a shame he couldn't come to the party. (It is a shame he could not come to the party.) "Its" is a possessive pronoun, to be used when talking about...

You should set up a time with your student to set up signs you both can understand. There are signs for noun, verb, etc. but unfortunately I don't have a site for them as I learned them in my ITP. But it's more important that you and your student are on the same page than that you are using the...

It's true that translation is for written languages and interpretation is between spoken or signed languages.

Yeah, I know about gamefaqs but I wanted to ask people here! I agree, it's way too easy to come across spoilers there, plus I keep reading faqs with statements like "This part is easy, you know what to do." Gee thanks, if I knew what to do would I be reading this? :ty: Guess I'll try the...

That's an interesting question. We happen to be working on this in class at the moment as the students are writing narrative paragraphs, so I had some of the students do some storytelling and then we discussed the differences between ASL and academic English narratives. I think there are...

Yeah, we had a whole thread about this at some point (not a slam on Steph as it was ages ago), and that was my feeling as well. Here in Los Angeles we have I believe one of the highest, if not the highest, number of languages spoken in a U.S. metropolitan area. Which of those languages should...

So sorry for both of you. I wish for strength for both of you in this terrible time.

But how do you know that? For all you know this doctor is very well informed with all the latest research regarding deaf kids, language acquisition and CIs. Unfortunately, in his professional opinion he goes with the research (because there's always research to prove any position) that implanted...

Anyone played this? Any tips for a beginning Infiltrator? :)

Agreed, watch everything you can. YouTube has tons of signing videos for free and you'll get to see a variety of signers, which I think is very important for improving reception. (Of course they're not all of the best quality but there are lots of good ones.) Or try Googling "deaf vlog" (a vlog...

That is the parents' fault for not considering all the options. Again: personal responsibility. Everyone -- deaf, hearing, parents, not parents, whatever -- should know better than to blindly accept any professional's opinion just because he or she has a diploma. Also: It's not "unethical"...

Absolutely. And this is why I haven't tried too hard in this thread. None so deaf as those who will not hear. Props to those of you who have tried so hard. You did think wrongly that if you brought terrible ideas about learning ASL and becoming an interpreter that we would welcome those ideas...

OF COURSE they have the right. It's their JOB to advise parents as to what they feel is the best course of treatment or whatever for the child. Just because you don't agree with that advice doesn't mean he didn't have the right to give it to you. Parents also have the right and responsibility...

The Braille one is definitely a favorite. When I was an ITP student an experienced interpreter told me about how many people asked her that, and I didn't believe her. Well, now I sure do! The best one had to be this idiotic old jerk of a teacher who should have been retired long ago. He was...

Ugh, your story hit me like a punch to the gut. I do not think by any means you're wrong to feel hurt and betrayed. She may have her reasons and whatever but not only the fact of her doing it but also not even talking with you about it is very sad to me. I'm sorry you're going through this. I...

Reba is so right on about all of this. Please see what I posted in the other thread.

I know what you mean. There is a really high incidence of depression and alcoholism (seriously!) among interpreters who don't have mental illness to begin with. The job requires you to look very, very, very honestly at yourself as a person and as a service provider. You have to accept criticism...

There are days I wish an IQ test were required before an interpreter can be hired. Forget signing skill, forget ethics, what about common sense?

When I was in my ITP a deaf man teaching ASL at a high school asked our program for a student to come and be the "hearing police" (my term) during a test. This was a purely volunteer position, no payment required. I know you don't want outside help but this worked really well -- I simply told...

It's brave to make that decision before knowing much about the language. I can't imagine making a decision not to change my methods of studying before starting a new subject of any kind -- language or other -- since I have no idea exactly what kind of study methods may be necessary. Hope it...