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Action Planning for Emergency Management Interpreting
by Steph • June 28th, 2013
This video introduces the "After Action Review" process as a tool for improving communication accessibility to information and services for the American Deaf community during disasters.
Cast: Stephanie Jo Kent
Tags: CT EM Interpreting - Deaf Prep, interpreting, ASL, disaster, FEMA, RID and NAD
Holding Time: The Significance of Certified Deaf Interpreters (CDIs)
by Steph • June 4th, 2013
Communication researcher Stephanie Jo Kent asks Deaf elders if her ideas about community interpreting are any good. Featuring Winchell and Ruth Moore.
English TRANSCRIPT available at reflexivity.us/wp/2013/06/transcript-for-holding-time/
Cast: Stephanie Jo Kent
Tags: Deaf Elders, ASL, CDIs, interpreting, Certified Deaf Interpreters, Deaf Culture, timespace and intercultural communication
Emergency Interpreting for Nemo in Massachusetts
by Steph • February 14th, 2013
This video explains why Fox 25/Boston's Doug VB Goudie promoted violence against Deaf people with his mockery of the sign language interpreter provided during MA Governor Deval Patrick's Press Conference. VB's dismissive attitude toward communication access for the Deaf could be considered hate speech. The effects of VB's negative words could lead to Deaf people not being provided appropriate public warning and therefore finding themselves at risk of injury or death.
Cast: Stephanie Jo Kent
Tags: Deaf, ASL, discrimination, natural disaster, emergency warning, communication access and emergency interpreting
Appealing to a greater vision for INTERPRETING
by mjd • January 6th, 2013
Response to Stephanie Clark’s vlogs about linguistic equality (between American Sign Language and English) and training for Certified Deaf Interpreters. Training and dialogue in ASL are stepping stones to bigger challenges: such as creating a market for CDIs to get work and choosing to trust each other as allies even when we sometimes let each other down. If we focus on the bigger goal, more of the necessary steps will fall into place naturally.
Don’t be a fiend!
by mjd • September 29th, 2011
Young leaders envision saving a mid-sized American city.
At the end of July 2011, twenty-nine high school students from Springfield MA gathered on the campus of UMass Amherst for a three-day “Taste of College” youth leadership retreat.
Sponsored by the Mass Alliance on Teen Pregnancy, New North Citizen’s Council, and UMass’ Center on Communication for Sustainable Social Change (CSSC), with donations from Big Y (Amherst), Whole Foods (Amherst), the North End Campus Coalition, and Amherst Community Television (ACTV).
Springfield Plus
by mjd • September 29th, 2011
Young leaders envision saving a mid-sized American city.
At the end of July 2011, twenty-nine high school students from Springfield MA gathered on the campus of UMass Amherst for a three-day “Taste of College” youth leadership retreat.
Sponsored by the Mass Alliance on Teen Pregnancy, New North Citizen’s Council, and UMass’ Center on Communication for Sustainable Social Change (CSSC), with donations from Big Y (Amherst), Whole Foods (Amherst), the North End Campus Coalition, and Amherst Community Television (ACTV).