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TERPexpo Schedule Posted!  Please increase the size to be able to read it.. thank you (all CEUs value is posted on the schedule) you now have the ability to earn up to 3.5 CEUS at TERPexpo Locations! Here are the workshop titles and their abstracts.. 2011-2012 Workshop Sessions  We're Not in Kansas Any More! Shannon Simon The change from a rule-based (deontological) code of ethics to the principle-based (teleological) NAD-RID Code of Professional Conduct requires us to examine our values and behaviors, professional responsibilities and decision-making processes. Professional growth means embracing the paradigm shift and discovering new ways to think about choices related to our work and roles. Understanding the changes in our profession and using tools like Demand-Control Schema (D-CS) will prepare us for making appropriate decisions when dilemmas occur. In addition to information about our profession, D-CS and the CPC, this workshop will provide related scenarios designed to help practitioners build an ethical framework for functioning in the 21st century paradigm. Discourse Mapping: A MUST for Effective Interpreting Shannon Simon Have you been told your interpreting product needs cohesion, or you need to use discourse analysis or mapping? Well, here is your opportunity to get with the program. Discourse mapping is the single most valuable tool an interpreter can possess. This cognitive process enables you to understand and frame the source message in order to create a meaningful spoken or visual representation in the target language. Discover what discourse mapping is, practice creating “maps” from printed or spoken English discourse and engage in activities which will allow you to use the map. Introduction to Legal Interpreting Shannon Simon Are you curious about interpreting in legal settings? Do you want some sign suggestions for legal vocabulary you might encounter? This workshop will provide general information about the court systems, legal terminology with meanings and signs, and a look at the interpreter's role in legal settings. Hitting the Mark: Transliterating Skills Shannon Simon Many interpreters work with clients who want to “see the English” or are in educational settings where “English fluency” is the goal. Transliterating is not just signing the words you hear in English word order but rather a set of “rules/guidelines” which help to make the message conceptually accurate, dynamically equivalent and “English”. A successful product requires cognitive skills, such as discourse analysis and mapping, while using Contact Variety Language to convey an accurate visual message. Join me to hone your skills in transliteration by learning the do's and don'ts. What the %$#@! Did You Just Sign??  Crom Saunders The use of words and phrases that are considered obscenities or foul language in spoken English discourse are not always used the same way or with the same subtext in ASL and Deaf culture environment (in fact is often used in non-offensive or derogatory manner) and often can present difficulties in voicing ASL discourse accurately or receptive comprehension in conversation. This workshop will clarify the actual contextual meanings of specific words and phrases as they are used in ASL discourse and the best way to voice or otherwise interpret these words/phrases. Ink-Stained Fingertips Crom Saunders Frozen texts/published works/scripts are bodies of text that are firmly established in content, context, and tone, leaving little room for creative interpretation. This workshop will provide you with the tools to identify frozen text/published works/scripts, gain the necessary vocabulary and background information, and to interpret the concept accurately in ASL while retaining a sense of the text structure as it is written/spoken. Creating Classifiers Crom Saunders Many non-native ASL users see classifiers as a separate “language” rather than an integral part of ASL. Attendees will learn models for classifier creation opportunities, and how to think in 3-D/Visual linguistic style, and a greater understanding of classifier use. Attendees will also learn how to describe actions and objects without using standard ASL vocabulary or reliance on PSE. Nye Who?: How to deal with specialized vocabulary in science topics/fields Crom Saunders How do you describe a chemical reaction? How would you interpret a biology lecture differently than an anatomy class or a course in physiology? How can you make scientific occurrences invisible to the naked eye visually clear? This workshop will help participants develop general tools for dealing with specialized vocabulary within the scope of scientific topics, and to broaden the use of their already developed skills to turn class vocabulary, tours/workshops/conferences' use of specific language, and work environment jargon into understandable and sign-able concepts. Cinematic ASL Windell Smith Jr Have you ever seen an ASL story performance and thought, "That's like watching a movie!"? Television and film use certain conventions (often referred to as the "grammar") when recording and editing audiovisual media. ASL literature has been found to use the same types of conventions by ASL "writers." Deaf, interpreters, and students alike should be able to incorporate these into their work. Cinematic techniques and formulas are already used by the Deaf community. If someone wants to create captivating "blockbuster" ASL literature or wants to create stunning visual interpreting work, they must be aware and practice these conventions.                 This workshop covers some of the most important conventions for conveying meaning through particular camera and editing techniques (as well as some of the specialized vocabulary of film production) through the use of space, classifiers, forced perspective, eye gaze, and other ASL aspects. Do You See What I'm Saying?"  Windell Smith Jr This workshop will demonstrate how to break down idioms not by the words used, but by the meaning of the English expression. Participants will use the sentence structure of both English and ASL to their benefit.  This workshop will provide the participants with the tools that will enable them to analyze English idioms and discuss the best practices with regard to interpreting English idioms. This will be accomplished by the use of dozens of English idiom samples, some of which have multiple meanings and possible options for interpreted delivery.  This workshop will set the ground work for deconstructing English idioms in order to determine their core meaning and strategies to effectively interpret the meaning using ASL concepts. Emoting Emotions Windell Smith jr Humans show emotions everyday; in fact, we embed emotions in words as a vehicle to express ourselves. Speakers employ emotions to give their audience a call to action, to ponder, and to teach. We as interpreters must understand a wide range of emotions and how to effectively incorporate them in our interpretation, requiring a wide use of facial features and inflection in our sign production as well as intonations in our vocal production. To be fully equipped to convey emotions we must first be able to understand what the they are, how they are used, and how we can fix them with our own experiences to fully comprehend. In this workshop participants will be exposed to a wide range of emotions and are asked to pull out their experiences in order to put them in perspective, then translate them into proper ASL affect.                 Put their experiences in order to put them in perspective, then translate them into proper ASL affect.                 In the workshop we will also examine Salovey and Mayer's model of Emotional Intelligence that can be applicable to our profession:                 Perceiving Emotions: The first step in understanding emotions is to accurately perceive them. In many cases, this might involve understanding nonverbal signals such as body language and facial expressions.                 Managing emotions ? the ability to detect and decipher emotions. The ability to identify one's own emotions. Sprints Maureen Longo Tuccelli Skills Development Track What do Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken, and George Carlin's Napalm and Silly Putty have in common? NOT MUCH!!! But the interpreting/transliterating practitioner's mind has to be ready for anything on a moment's notice. Come to this "workout" workshop that involves mental exercises, physical warm-ups, attitude adjustments, and "sprints" using many different snippets back to back across an array of genres.  Who Did What to Whom Maureen Longo Tuccelli Skills Development Track Perhaps you have learned the "body shift dance", you are a whiz at indexing, and you can eye gaze up, down, left, and right with the best of them….but what's next?  What happens when the narrator of a story speaks, when there are more than two characters, and when the scenes switch? Come see more than 20 (non vocabulary) decisions that have to be made in the first 60 words of the children's book Crictor by Tomi Ungerer. Pick up tips on making your product more clear as you interpret the rest of the book and then move on to Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach! Oh See Can You Say Maureen Longo Tuccelli Skills Development Track Using dynamic interactive methods and real life situations, Maureen will demystify the process of voicing and explore specifically the components of Understanding, Telling, and Saying. The Caller Said What: VRS Interpreting Dr Alan Marcus Workshop explores the challenges interpreters face when working in the Video Relay Services industry. This setting is quite different than free-lance work in that you cannot choose the topic you are signing up to work in. Moreover, the topic of conversation can be one you, as the interpreter may not feel comfortable with. This workshop will ask interpreters to explore their own comfort zones when it comes to interpreting and what areas they may need to work on or avoid. Entering the Sexual Zone  Alan Marcus This workshop is designed to educate interpreters on the use of sexual signs.  The presenter  will go over both male and female anatomy, discussing in detail, body parts and signs that are commonly used with these body parts.  Following that, participants will discuss common sexual activity signs and vocabulary that may be needed should they interpret a sexual call while working in the VRS setting.  The participants will also be asked to share signs that they may have seen or used. Narrative Development of Personal Storytelling in ASL Peter Cook The purpose of this workshop is to explore the role of Narrator and Character in storytelling. The participants will have the chance to exercise role shifting between Narrator and Character. Features such as Body shifting, Eye gazing, Physical features, Positions, and Power shifting will be discussed. The participants will create stories through their personal experiences and will be given assignment during the course of the workshop. In the Eyes and Out the Hands; Owning ASL Maureen Longo Tuccelli Skills Development Track This workshop will allow participants to observe more than 30 ASL principles as they occur naturally using a master Deaf communicator as a model.  They will then practice incorporating those principles into a more native like deliverance in their own communication and during their interpreting. Previous  TERPexpo Workshops Offered Developing Ethical Fitness Shannon Simon The NAD-RID Code of Professional Conduct, adopted in 2005, represents a paradigm shift.  Do you know the new guiding principle and can you explain the "Reasonable Interpreter Standard"?    Join me in a safe environment for small group discussions using interpreting scenarios to brainstorm options, examine how the new paradigm CPC guides us and examining what the implications of our choices might be.  Use this to build your ethical decision making skills so you can think fast when situations arise.  It's good practice for both pre-certified and certified interpreters. ASL to English: Using Compression to Achieve Equivalence Shannon Simon Voicing is always a challenge.  Our goal is to convey an English message that is equivalent to the message signed….speaking all the signs you see may not do the trick.  Let's focus on seven (7) linguistic features of ASL(contrast, faceting, nesting/scaffolding, reiteration, use of 3-D space, explain by example, describe, then do), which are not used in English.  Using video models of those 7 features and guided practice we will develop equivalent English messages.  Additional work will be done with new video samples in small groups. Don't Drop the Cheese Maureen Tuccelli Ever walk through the door you set up without opening it? Ever flee from the wolf smack into the tree you just established? Ever clap to show the mouse's great joy only to have the kids ask what happened to the cheese you were holding? If so, this is a seminar for you.  A workshop that concentrates on visual integrity in storytelling. Learn what the audience sees when you sign.  Practice thinking visually.Gather tips on how to improve your skill.  Feel free to bring your favorite children's book.Come watch, share, learn and do in an atmosphere of camaraderie. Dropping the Form - Interpretation Skills Development Shannon Simon Are you in a jobs or setting that requires transliteration? Do you struggle with ASL grammar and appropriate use of visual tools and want to improve your interpretation skills??  Come and practice interpretation skills in an encouraging environment using short texts.  Free yourself of the form of English and get to the content or "meat" of the message.  Practice using conjunctions, questions markers and other tools to divorce English and marry ASL. Team Interpreting Shannon Simon Working as a team interpreter can be a delight or a disaster!  This workshop is designed to help us all be on the same page when we team.  Using brain-based participant centered activities you will be exposed to "best practices" of team interpreting, engage in discussion about teaming issues and have opportunities to practice some appropriate teaming behaviors.  Come and learn the skills to be the interpreter everyone likes to team with! ASL Idiom Workshop Champ me Kiss-Fist Crom Saunders  . "Do You See What I'm Saying?"  Windell Smith Jr This workshop will demonstrate how to break down idioms not by the words used, but by the meaning of the English expression. Participants will use the sentence structure of both English and ASL to their benefit.  This workshop will provide the participants with the tools that will enable them to analyze English idioms and discuss the best practices with regard to interpreting English idioms. This will be accomplished by the use of dozens of English idiom samples, some of which have multiple meanings and possible options for interpreted delivery.  This workshop will set the ground work for deconstructing English idioms in order to determine their core meaning and strategies to effectively interpret the meaning using ASL concepts.  Discourse Mapping: A MUST for Effective Interpreting Shannon Simon If you're wondering "What the heck is Discourse Mapping?" "And how will it help my product?" then this workshop is for you Discourse mapping (DM) is the single most valuable "cognitive" tool an interpreter can possess. DM enables an interpreter to understand and frame the source message in order to create a meaningful spoken or visual representation in the target language.  Discover what discourse mapping is, practice "mapping"  (yes, homework) and engage in activities to develop the cognitive skill.. . It is mandatory to attend both session, Thursday and Sunday to earn CEU's for this course. Do You Understand What I Think I Said? Maureen Tuccelli How do you get the picture from your head into someone else?s? This is a group discussion of where breakdowns occur in visual and verbal communication. Demonstrations of how experiential knowledge influences style and sign choice. Ideas on ways to facilitate clear transferal of information will be shared. Hands on activities will help to heighten awareness of problem areas and lead to improvement in skills Interpreting  Deaf Religious Services Paul Jones A Deaf preacher will deliver a sermon.  After the sermon, a moderator will review signs used in the sermon that have different variations or concepts in various denominations. "Make The English Tangible in ASL"  Windell Smith Jr Picture a train... What do you see? Now ask a friend to picture a train and have them explain or draw what they first saw. Is it the same image you had? Most likely not, ASL is not any different, we all have different pictures. One interpreter may interpret a concept completely differently than you do. This workshop focuses on harnessing the ability to take English and create a beautiful ASL interpretation that bridges the gap culturally all along with the respect of each participants picture in their mind. ASL Discourse Peter Cook The purpose of this workshop is to explore the role of discourse in ASL.  The participants will state the role of ASL discourse in our daily conversation and list the patterns that occurred during the discourses between two people or in a formal presentation. Features such as comparisons of informal and formal conversation, the main context of discourses and the par lingual elements within the discourses will be discussed. The participants will create discourses through their personal experiences and will be given exercises during the course of the workshop. Languishing In Linear Language Is Lethal  Maureen Tuccelli Come discuss at least four “stumbling blocks” for those of us who interpret but are not native American Sign Language users. Learn some techniques to improve your ability to “think in ASL”. Come read a 25 word English sentence and figure out how few signs are needed to accurately render it....then watch it being rendered with no “signs” at all! Interpreting and SSPing with Deaf-Blind Consumers Shannon Simon Are you insecure about working with a person who is Deaf-Blind?  You don't need to be!  This workshop will prepare you for meeting, guiding and interpreting for a variety of Deaf-Blind consumers.  You will also explore the roles and responsibilities of Support Service Providers (SSP) and experience what it might be like to be Deaf-Blind yourself.  This workshop is presented using active participation brain-based teaching/learning methods. I need my Space Crom Saunders Many people who use ASL find some difficulty with 3-D mapping, understanding when a signer's point of view shifts, and where to, and real-world orientation versus narrative mapping. This workshop will help participants develop general tools for understanding, applying and using spatial classifiers, directional descriptions, real-world and virtual descriptions of a particular environment or setting. Facing your interpreting nightmares Alan Marcus Join Dr. Marcus and your colleagues as you explore some of the most difficult interpreting scenarios you have faced. Through discussion, sharing and role plays, Dr. Marcus will assist the group in identifying, processing and coming up with effective ways to handle difficult interpreting jobs. We have all had them, and sometimes we vow never to return to that kind of job ever again.  Dr. Marcus believes we can overcome these fears once we understand what is getting in our way. If your ready to face your interpreting nightmares, this workshop is for you. My Father's Gift  Windell Smith Jr What shapes our values? Who are our heroes? Journey through Windell's story today and you may discover your own answers to these questions. Windell takes you through decades of laughs, tribulations, and the uncertainty that he experienced personally and vicariously through his mother and father. Visit the scene of his mother's train accident, pop back into his kindergarten class, where as a CODA he had his first introduction to the hearing world. Watch as his parents' thoughts, stories and experiences are shared with exciting twists and turns that give the audience an inside look at growing up with Deaf parents. Looking back, he realizes just how much they taught him about the beauty and value of American Sign Language and Deaf Culture. But most of all, this is a beautiful story of Windell Jr's parents, Windell and Gwen Smith, their love for each other that was tested by a horrific car accident, their community that they leaned on for support, and the core beliefs and values that are rooted in Deaf Culture. All of these are wrapped up in this entertaining story, so come join us as we look up at Deaf Culture and stay for the post-performance discussion. Whip up a Workshop Maureen Tuccelli Ever been bored at a workshop?  Tired of seeing the same things offered over and over again? Well, the best way to learn something is to teach it! Why not consider developing your own workshop?  A long list of impressive credentials is not required for becoming a good presenter; you must simply know something valuable that you can share with others in an interesting way.  Come discuss how to expand your ideas into a workshop with supporting activities; pick up hints on time management, how to connect with a group, and establishing a safe environment. Learn how to fill out an RID instructor's form in such a way that it will make your workshop CEU worthy. Yes you can! Nye Who? Interpreting Scientific Terminology Crom Saunders How do you describe a chemical reaction? How would you interpret a biology lecture differently than an anatomy class or a course in physiology? How can you make scientific occurrences invisible to the naked eye visually clear? This workshop will help participants develop general tools for dealing with specialized vocabulary within the scope of scientific topics, and to broaden the use of their already developed skills to turn class vocabulary, tours/workshops/conferences' use of specific language, and work environment jargon into understandable and sign-able concepts. Autobody of Performing Peter Cook The art of performing arts interpreting incorporates a variety of ASL techniques and strategies.  By deconstructing a narrative sample and actively looking for areas in which to incorporate ASL features, interpreters will improve not only their interpretation, but also the clarity of the message.  In addition, utilizing ASL features will increase the enjoyment and interest of the Deaf audience.  This workshop will use personal stories of the participants and provide diagnostic feedback to each of the participants. Fruitful Feedback Maureen Tuccelli Taking and giving feedback can be a stressful experience. Come pick up tips on providing a safe environment, making a meaningful handout, creating an exponential learning venue, and establishing a non treating approach to the product you are critiquing.