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So You Want to be an Interpreter

Janice H. Humphrey

This study guide contains guided learning activities, study questions and supplemental video clips to enrich the learning journey of students in diverse learning environments.
A Closer Look: Signs for Sports

Postsecondary Education Consortium

Featuring vocabulary signs that might be used when teaching or interpreting sports such as football, basketball, baseball, track, and others.
Take These Meds: Interpreting Visits to a Pharmacy

Doug Bowen-Bailey

Presents a pharmacist's worldview and scenarios designed to go with a study packet and website which provide background, broader context, and reflections by sign language interpreters. Three scenarios address four medical conditions: dealing with asthma, a med review (blood pressure and diabetes), and on bones (osteoporosis).
Early Years of William Shakespeare

Bobbi Jordan

Bobbi Jordan discusses the early years of William Shakespeare and his family.
By the Book: Interpreting an Intake in a County Jail

Digiterp Communications

Guide to ASL interpreting for the booking of a person into a county jail, including consideration of how to prepare for entering the facility and what to expect in the interpreting situation.
A Closer Look: Signs for English Composition

Postsecondary Education Consortium

Features vocabulary signs that might be used in postsecondary level English Composition classes.
She Said, He Said: Monologues and Dialogues in ASL

Digiterp Communications

Monologues and conversations between Ketsi Carlson and Joshua Hottle in ASL on a variety of topics. Includes a written outline to provide support for understanding. Provides the opportunity for interpreters to see language styles of college students who are recent graduates of high school.
A Closer Look: Signs for Idioms

Postsecondary Education Consortium

Targets sign vocabulary using common idioms in secondary and postsecondary settings. Interpreters and deaf students will benefit by preparing for vocabulary to be used in the classroom.
All in Due Time: Perspectives on Childbirth from Deaf Parents

RSA Region V Project

Six Deaf couples discuss their experiences of giving birth. The stories they share represent a variety of factors and complications that occurred before, during, and after the births of their children.
Navigating Discourse Genres: Parallel Texts in American Sign Language and English on Canoeing in the Boundary Waters

Doug Bowen-Bailey

Contains a series of parallel texts on canoeing in the BWCA. It explores how the features of language change in different genres of language
More Signing for Sense: Guidelines for Making Visual Sense When Communicating with Your Deaf or Hard of Hearing Child

Janice H. Humphrey

A lesson designed to assist families with communicating effectively with their deaf or hard of hearing children.
Catholic Liturgical Signs

Maureen Ann Longo

Responses and prayers used during Catholic mass are clearly explained and demonstrated. Signed and voiced.
Pledge of Allegiance, National Anthem

Maureen Ann Longo

The Pledge of Allegiance and the Star Spangled Banner are demonstrated and explained. Video can be used as a guide for deaf children (and cheerleaders). Signed, voiced with on-screen text. At end of tape, you will see a "live" rendition of this at the Florida Folk Festival.
Conceptual Accuracy in Idioms

Marietta Patchin

Teaches signers how to clearly portray the right feelings, thoughts and perspectives in their signing through the use of idioms, multi-meaning signs and conceptual accuracy.
In Transition: Interactive Situations for Interpreting Practice on Transitioning to College

RSA Region V Federal Interpreter Education Project

Created by the RSA Region V Interpreter Education Project and Digiterp Communication, this project has three interactive situations connected to transition from high school to college. Features the language talents of Doug Bowen-Bailey, Ketsi Carlson, Nancy Diener, Jonie Langdon-Larson, and Sharon Witherspoon as well as strategies for working with interactive situations.
Languishing in a Linear Language is Lethal: How to "Think" in ASL

Maureen Longo Tuccelli

Maureen Longo Tuccelli presents four stumbling blocks hearing signers often face when trying to learn a visual language. Suggestions are made and examples given for overcoming those blocks. Bonus feature: How are you going to sign in ASL when you're still thinking in English? Learn practice techniques on how to begin thinking in ASL.
Patriotic Songs in ASL and Signed English

Maureen Longo Tuccelli

"God Bless America" and "America the Beautiful" are the two songs presented by the instructor, Maureen Longo Tuccelli. She explains by signing and verbalizing her methods of choosing how to interpret the words and phrases of the songs. Then she offers suggestions and demonstrations on how the translations could be presented. On-screen text is also utilized.
On Fire with Classifiers

Michael Tuccelli

Explains and demonstrates classifiers and their use in sign language. Classifiers are specialized signs which represent people, places, or things and are also used to describe objects. Signed, voiced and on-screen text.
Jump Start to Sign Language

Maureen Ann Longo

This video will give you over 100 signs and explain the hows and whys. Some basic grammatical rules are explained, also. On-screen text, signed and voiced.
The Legacy of Eliza Taylor

Eliza Taylor and Ella Irby

Eliza Taylor was born July 10, 1906 in West Helena, Arkansas, near the Mississippi River. At 93, she is the oldest living black graduate of the Arkansas School for the Deaf. This interview, conducted with past president of the Little Rock Black Deaf Advocates, Ella Irby, highlights Mrs. Taylor's life and experiences at the Arkansas School for the Deaf.
American Government Vocabulary

Maureen Longo Tuccelli

Signs used in American Government classrooms are demonstrated and explained. Vocabulary include "Checks and Balances, Habeas Corpus, Anarchy, Implied Powers", etc. This could also be used to teach deaf children vocabulary. PSE signed, voiced and on-screen text.
Coffee Break Sign Language Lessons 1-5

Michael Tuccelli

Five short lessons give you the basic vocabulary and grammatical structure to begin signing. Tips on avoiding common mistakes are given. Hundreds of words are shown conceptually, with basic ASL grammar explained. Good for parents of deaf children, service providers, police, medical personnel and anyone affected by the Americans with Disabilities Act. These tapes have on-screen text and are voiced.
Coffee Break Sign Language Lessons 6-10

Michael Tuccelli

Five additional short lessons add to your vocabulary and grammatical expertise. Tips on avoiding common mistakes are given. Hundreds of words are shown conceptually, with basic ASL grammar explained. Good for parents of deaf children, service providers, police, medical personnel and anyone affected by the Americans with Disabilities for Act. These tapes have on-screen text and are voiced.
Receptive Number Practice

Michael Tuccelli

An introduction to various number systems in ASL. Fractions, decimals, phone numbers, social security numbers, addresses, etc. Numbers are introduced, then lots of practice given. Signed, voiced with on-screen text.