Conference of Interpreter Trainers
2nd National Convention
March 12-15, 1981
National Technical Institute for the Deaf ~ Rochester, NY
The Conference Proceedings includes workshop abstracts for the following presentations.
Those denoted by a * also have either handouts or written paper to accompany the workshop description.
Table of Contents
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Keynote:
- Interpreters as Educators: The Art and Science – James DeCaro*
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Workshop Abstracts:
- Historical Overview of Interpreter Training & How to Administratively Deal with an Open-Door Community College – Jacqueline Vidrine
- “It’s a Deaf, Deaf World” – Barbara Ray Holcomb & Mary Lou Basile
- How to be an effective trainer” – Anna Witter-Merithew*
- Research and Curriculum Development Leading to Innovative Teaching Technique: A Door to the ’80’s – Jan Kanda
- MEDIAGRAPHY or “Seeking Software” – Jo Bausch and Charlie Johnstone
- A technique for building confidence in voice interpreting among beginning students – Laurie Swabey & Andrew Keith*
- Teaching P.O.C. (Point of Concentration) – Betti Bonni
- Assessment and use of vision by hearing-impaired people: implications for interpreters – Donald Johnson & Frank Caccamise*
- Training Interpreters to work between ASL and English – Betty Colonomos
- Innovative Approach to Teaching Voice Interpreting – Deborah Cassell
- The Art of Critique – Jeanne Wells*
- Using Written ASL in the Classroom – Linda Lee Massoud*
- Instructional Organization for Teaching Specific Skills – Marlene Schecter-Conners*
- Deaf Trainers in Interpreter Training – Jan McCready – Johnson*
- Coping with Stress – Rebecca Carlson*