Wisconsin
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
Hello WisRID Members:
Recently, I’ve been in contact with Sheri Cook. Sheri is the
Director for the Gallaudet University Midwest Regional Center (Midwest GURC).
The Midwest GURC offers workshops, technical assistance, extension courses, and
other services for deaf and hard-of-hearing consumers and the professionals who
work with them.
The Midwest GURC would like to determine if there is
interest in bringing a professional studies course to the Wisconsin area.
WisRID would like to assist by surveying WisRID members to determine their
interest.
About Midwest GURC professional studies courses:
*The courses are offered as one-credit courses
*The courses are 12.5-15 hours of instruction (2 days) plus
25 hours of outside instruction
*The cost of a one-credit course is $283 plus $30 for
registration
Of the many courses offered, the Midwest GURC would like to
know if any of the following three courses would be of interest to members:
LN 695/PST 372, An
Introduction: Basic Linguistics of Nonmanual Signals in ASL, (1 credit).
The course introduces students to the theory and practice involved in analyzing
nonmanual signals, which are aspects of American Sign Language that are not
expressed on the hands. The functions of nonmanual signals are diverse,
affecting the structure of ASL at the phonological, morphological/semantic,
syntactic, and sociolinguistic level. This course is not available to
Linguistics majors for graduate credit. This course has pass/fail grading.
PST 355,
Conceptualization and Blending: Interpreting Anatomy and Physiology (1 credit). This course is designed for
educational interpreters working in K-12 educational settings. The interactive
practice provided in the course will allow students to gain a more advanced
understanding of the use of conceptual blending in ASL, in order to produce
descriptively accurate interpretations. The framework of this course is a
middle-school biology class covering anatomy and physiology topics.
Topics covered include:
• Understanding how to analyze depicting blends (classifiers);
• Recognizing and producing different types of blends;
• Understanding how blending enhances ASL production;
• Translating and interpreting anatomy and physiology content from English into
ASL, incorporating blends effectively.
PST 336/INT 665 Introduction to Simultaneous Interpretation
of ASL Monologues (1 credit). This is an introductory course
dealing with interpretation of ASL to English monologues. Emphasis is placed on
comprehension of ASL prior to interpretation into English. Course topics
include effort in interpretation, restructuring, coping skills, simultaneity,
and repair strategies. Prerequisites:
Students must have fluency in ASL and English at levels which permit full
comprehension of source texts in both languages, and expressive language
abilities which are commensurate with their current level of receptive skills.
Course will be conducted in ASL.
To express your interest in taking one of these courses, and
to express when you’d like to take this course please follow the survey link:
Expressing your interest does not commit you to registering
for any of the courses.
If you are interested, please take the survey. It will be
open until May 18th.
You may take the survey by following this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SCZW6X7
To read more about the Midwest GURC, follow this link: http://www.jalc.edu/gurc/index.html
Thank you for your input.
Sincerely,
Susan Gallanis
WisRID President