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2007 Annual Deafness Conference
UCU Conference Centre, Britannia Street, Kings Cross, London.
6th November 2007.
The Fourth Annual Deafness Conference is an opportunity for all professionals working with deaf people to meet and network with colleagues and to gain a greater understanding of developments taking place across the country and across the spectrum of deafness.
Delegate Fees
Standard Rate: £95
Affiliate Organisations: £75
Member Organisations: £45
The UK Council on Deafness AGM will take place during the lunch-break.
Presentations listed below. The programme is provisional and is subject to change. Latest details always available on the UK Council on Deafness website at www.deafcouncil.org.uk
For further information or to book your place please visit the website at www.deafcouncil.org.uk or contact Clare Long on c.long@deafcouncil.org.uk
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Primary Presentations
Welcome to our new Affiliate Organisations joining this month:
· Definitely Training & Advocacy Ltd
· Sign-Now.com
Full contact details can be found in the Directory of Affiliated Organisations at www.deafcouncil.org.uk/affila.htm
The Forest Books 2008 catalogue is available now. The information-packed 64 page catalogue contains books, DVDs, Videos and CD-Roms about sign language, deafness and deaf issues.
To receive your free copy log-on to www.Forestbooks.com and fill out the catalogue request form.
Alternatively you can
email forest@forestbooks.com
phone 01594 833858
fax to 01594 833446
Bulk copies are also available for sign language and deaf awareness tutors and organisations.
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ASLI CONFERENCE ‘Looking Back – Going Forward’
The 2008 ASLI conference will be held at the prestigious Cumberland Hotel in Central London on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6 April 2008. The conference theme is ‘Looking Back – Going Forward’ and, in honour of ASLI’s 21st birthday, will provide a retrospective that looks at where the profession has come from and looks to the future by sharing knowledge & experience and generating new ideas on interpreting.
Keynote speaker: We are pleased to announce Sharon Neumann Solow as our keynote speaker. An established and well-respected U.S. interpreter, interpreter coordinator, performer, lecturer & consultant, Sharon's paper will address the conference theme: 'Looking Back - Going Forward'
ASLI PhD Lecture: Another addition to our conference programme sees a return to the ASLI PhD Lecture series and we are pleased to announce that our presenter will be Jules Dickinson. A BSL/English Interpreter & lecturer, Jules is currently in the final year of a PhD research project that examines the impact and implications of sign language interpreters in workplace settings with focus on power relationships, office culture and interpreter/client boundaries.
Call for Papers: ASLI would like to invite proposals for papers from all stakeholders: Deaf and hearing interpreters, consumer, sign language & interpreter trainers and interpreter researchers. The deadline for submissions is 4th January 2008. For further details of thematic areas and submission checklist please visit the ASLI website at www.asli.org.uk– Conference 08.
Conference Bookings: Conference bookings are now open. Rates and downloadable booking forms are available from the ASLI website as above. Early Bird rates are available for all bookings made by 1st February 2008.
BSMHD Interpreting in Mental Health Settings – A Practice Profession Approach
4th December 2007, Britannia Street Conference Centre, Kings Cross
Presented by: Robyn Dean, MA, C.I./C.T., of the faculty of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Robert Pollard, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and director of the Deaf Wellness Center.
In order for the interpreting profession to advance, it must conceptualize interpreting work in a different way. It must articulate and embrace a new schema – a schema that is expansive enough to include not only the technical aspects of interpreting work but the human and social aspects as well. Since their first publication in 2001, which described the basic structure of their Demand-Control Schema for Interpreting Work, Dean and Pollard have postulated that interpreting is a practice profession and that the traditional emphasis on the work’s technical aspects has created numerous myths and misunderstandings about interpreting.
First is the myth that interpreters are not active and influential participants in the communication event. The second myth is that the constructs of language and culture, the ways we usually learn about and talk about interpreting work, are sufficient for capturing the phenomenology of interpreting work. The last myth is that there is a limited set of best practice behaviours that, if followed strictly, interpreters will always be ethically sound.
These myths can be problematic in any type of interpreting assignment but they are particularly troublesome in mental health settings. Addressing and dispelling these myths is essential. Many times, correcting these misunderstandings means the difference between effective and ineffective evaluation and treatment outcomes for deaf consumers. In this introductory workshop, Dean and Pollard will address these interpreting myths and present the fundamentals of their demand-control schema. This new schema serves as the scaffold for their broader practice-profession perspective on interpreting in the unique mental healthcare setting.
In this workshop, we reconstruct the interpreting event by reformulating and adding to the language and culture factors present in the work. We pay careful attention to the impact of our decisions and ourselves on the communication event - and not by denying that this impact exists. Last, we will use a very different language around decisions and ethics that creates a best practice process by which professionals can evaluate the myriad decisions available to them in their work. Participants will leave this workshop with new insights about their work, their decisions, their consumers, their colleagues, and the interpreting profession through a new, structured, and holistic paradigm.
For details of how to attend this event please contact c.long@deafcouncil.org.uk
Opportunities for Volunteering Scheme Grants
The next application round for projects starting in April 2008 is now open. Funding will be available for up to three years. To register your interest please contact Roger Hewitt on r.hewitt@deafcouncil.org.uk
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