Workshops and other resources
Resources/Suggestions
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS:
- Attend interpreting workshops as often as possible. You are required to earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to maintain your credentials; make sure that you are choosing workshops that enhance your skills in deficit areas and align with required CEU areas of study.
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS:
Other Resources:
- UALR’s Interpreter Education Program sign language lab (in Dickinson Hall) is open to novice interpreters and is a wealth of resources to practice skills development.
Professional Development
Interpreters/transliterators licensed by ADH are required to complete continuing education units (CEUs) according to the Arkansas State Board of Health Rules Governing the Licensure of Provisional and Qualified Interpreters. Planned professional development activities should be made available to educational interpreters/transliterators just as they are to teachers and other school employees. Professional development can be provided in a variety of ways including in-service training programs, workshops, tutoring, conferences, and online.
Possible areas for professional development opportunities may include, but are not limited to:
Higher certification level as an interpreter/transliterator
Professional interpreting knowledge
Knowledge in foundations of education and/or in education of students who are deaf
Proficiency in English, e.g., vocabulary, spelling, reading, writing, literature
Public speaking
Child growth and development
Language development
Common expressions, spoken or signed, popular in school setting
Deafness and its psychological, social and cultural considerations
Overview of philosophies, techniques, legislation and regulations in education
Speech production and speech reading factors
Cued speech
Sign systems
Cognitive development
Tutoring
Guidelines for professional conduct
Culture, multiculturalism, cultural literacy, literacy
Linguistics
Interpreting, roles and responsibilities
Medical aspects of deafness
Technology
Content area terminology
Possible sources for obtaining professional development activities include:
- Arkansas Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (ARID)
P.O. Box 46511 Little Rock, AR 72214-6511
http://www.arkansasrid.org/
- Arkansas School for the Deaf Statewide Services - L.E.A.P. (Language and Education through greater Access and emPowerment)
2400 W. Markham Little Rock, AR 72201
(501) 324-9553
https://www.arschoolforthedeaf.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1236734&type=d&pREC_ID=1104014
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR)
2801 South University Little Rock, AR 72204-1099
(501) 569-3169
http://ualr.edu/care/index.php/home/programs/interpretationeducation/
The UALR Interpreter Education Program provides the following:
Associates of Science (A.S.) Degree in American Sign Language Studies
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Degree in Interpretation: ASL/English
Sign Language Studies Minor
Educational Interpreting Minor