Trudy Suggs | Deaf Disempowerment and Today’s Interpreter

[rockin'robin]

Trudy presented, Deaf Disempowerment and Today’s Interpreter, at StreetLeverage – Live. Her talk examined how the choices sign language interpreters make while delivering communication access can, and often do, contribute to the economic and situational disempowerment of deaf people.

http://www.streetleverage.com/2012/12/deaf-disempowerment-and-todays-interpreter/

 

[Tousi]

Trudy presented, Deaf Disempowerment and Today’s Interpreter, at StreetLeverage – Live. Her talk examined how the choices sign language interpreters make while delivering communication access can, and often do, contribute to the economic and situational disempowerment of deaf people.

http://www.streetleverage.com/2012/12/deaf-disempowerment-and-todays-interpreter/

I have heard a lot of good things about Trudy. She lives and works in the town of my birth and upbringing in Minnesota. I hope Reba sees this....

 

[Frisky Feline]

Yes i like her. She's a good person to meet and she's awasome.

 

[Reba]

Just finished the link.

Trudy makes excellent points.

It's very disheartening to me to read the examples of bad interpreting practices or ethical failures. The interpreter whispering with the receptionist, the educational interpreter faking deafness, the high school interpreter mocking Trudy. . . it makes me sick. Those educational interpreters especially should have been fired. The whisperer might be retrainable; I'm not sure because she certainly didn't respond properly when she was caught in her indiscretion.

We all slip up occasionally but those examples were more than a rare mistake.

I agree with Trudy that we need more Deaf ASL instructors, school staff and deaf services staff.