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The BEST thing you can do as an intepreting student and interpreter is NOT take anything personally. Especially in an interpreting program, you will have people constantly criticizing your work, trying to make it better. It doesn't make you a less valuable or worthwhile person, this is about a...

Pay for intepreters is ALL OVER the place. It depends on yes, your level, skill, type of terping, hours, if you get benefits, blah blah blah.... but two people can be at the SAME level of skill and certification doing the SAME job, SAME type of interpreting, SAME cost of living, in 2 different...

Awesome! Obviously it just starts with the legal decision, and putting it into practice will take time, but seriously, that is amazing, and a big step for Deaf Canadians.

Whoa, and we thought it was bad here. SEVEN full-time interpreters for over 25,000 deaf people, um, I feel sorry for both the deaf people and the interpreters. Guess that means terps basically only show up for emergencies, if communication is decent, I can see terps just going from one...

- I totally understand your situation, you are not alone at all. Every hearing person who decides to get involved in the deaf community, or with a person in the deaf community, and learns sign language has to deal with this balancing act. - I find it easier to deal with signers/non signers...

I'm willing, just PM me with the links and what you need!

I am a current CSUN student, heading into my second year at CSUN. ----The dorms are very nice (for dorms)-- they are apartment style, with a bathroom (including separate doors for the toilet and shower/bath) a kitchen (you can request a dorm without a kitchen, though not in the "deaf"...

One BIG thing that several people here seem to forget, 90% of doctors and the hearing world will, often times out of ignorance alone, ASSUME that oralism is better than signing. Almost all doctors and hearing professionals that work with the "hearing impaired" have a pathological view of...

Okay, when a person posts on a forum, I think it is safe to assume that person is looking for various opinions. Obviously everyone has a bias, but isn't it good for the person asking to hear the experiences of various deaf adults? I think it's SO important for hearing parents to meet and...

As you can see, this is a very complicated issue. I think that any logical person will have to agree with at least what I have bolded - here is something I said in an earlier post: Spoken languages and signed languages each have their benefits. I think the problem many deaf people have with...

Apparently my turn to not be clear. I think that AT A SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF, the hearing world isn't there to shame them into not using their voices,most people there are deaf, and the hearing ones there are usually involved with the deaf community, and wouldn't usually make fun of a deaf person's...

I'm not saying that they did or didn't have good speech before, but I've noticed that the ABSOLUTE quietest people I have met that don't make noise/voice are people who told me they grew up oral. I also know tons of oral deaf people that voice all the time, whether or not they sign. --I think...

I have a LOT of friends like that. They make it very clear that they never speak, or often, just when they're with their parents. But, eventually, a word or a phrase, sometimes even a sentence, will slip out. From what I've seen, a lot of times when a deaf person is shocked, thinks something is...

You're kind of vague here, but I am assuming that you are saying deaf people should speak with their hearing and speaking children. You completely ignored any comments I made about her mother or speech problems and her reasons for not speaking, but okay, I'll address what you've said here...

When deaf people learn how to speak, IF they can, -which comes from a mix of luck and hours and hours of speech therapy- it is usually monotone. Again, it comes back to language ACQUISTION over COMPREHENSION. Okay, yes, her mom probably spent a long time getting her to learn how to speak...

Fresno is in Northern California.

YES! That is the big difference...though you can see it in the hands with beginners, the best way to tell the difference between hearing and deaf is the face. OY it is annoying when you see people sign with no expression, boring and difficult to understand! One interesting tidbit, there...

Short answer: Total Communication is signing and speaking at the same time.

Good Posting Eyeth Brilliant! I can tell ya, especially if you don't pass on that you didn't even request a terp, it won't making the hearing signer feel too great. Even though most people are willing to do it, it's not like "oh yay, I can join an organization so I can miss the...

TOTALLY...Two words...Processing time (a kind word for lag time)...Many times we allow ourselves the lag time when interpreting from English to ASL--- this comes with experience, and also, to be blunt, the idea that we need to process and make sure we put the ideas into terms we think the...