ASL Texts for Consecutive Interpreting Practice
This resource provides texts that are designed to support interpreters in their quest to develop competency in interpreting from ASL to English. The videos are both in full speed and 80% speed, and can be viewed in sections that encompass main ideas. This variety of formats allows for honing the skills required to recognize when Consecutive (CI) and Simultaneous (SI) formats are most effective, and how to move along the continuum between CI and SI.
Featuring the language talents of Roger Brown, Debbie Peterson, and Trudy Suggs, descriptions of the texts are listed below.
Skin Deep by Roger Brown and Is Deafness a Disability? by Debbie Peterson are offered for free viewing to see the format of the resources.
Skin Deep
Skin Deep
Roger Brown shares his experience at school as one of the only Black students and how he learned to appreciate the color of his skin. View video
Making School Choices
Making School Choices
Roger Brown explains how his mother and grandmother made the choices that got him to the Indiana School for the Deaf. View video. (Requires paid access.)
A Trip to the South
A Trip to the South
Roger Brown talks of a trip to South Carolina for his daughter’s graduation and what he learned of the old South during slavery times. View video. (Requires paid access.)
Is Deafness a Disability?
Is Deafness a Disability?
Debbie Peterson shares her reflection on the challenging question of whether being Deaf is a disability or not? View video. (Requires paid access.)
School Desegregation
School Desegregation
Debbie Peterson shares her perspective on the process of desegregation in the last three Deaf schools to go through the process. View video. (Requires paid access.)
A Spiritual Journey
A Spiritual Journey
Debbie tells of her spiritual journey which has helped her to see the difference between religions that are either dogmatic or gnostic. View video. (Requires paid access.)
Grant Writing 101
Grant Writing 101
Trudy Suggs gives a brief overview on the process of writing effective grants. View video. (Requires paid access.)
Can I Speak Now?
Can I Speak Now?
Trudy Suggs gives an ASL version of a 1997 essay for the NAD Monograph explaining the various entities who have claimed to speak for her. View video. (Requires paid access.)