Are you looking for information on who can serve as an interpreter during a mediation session at the mediation center in Columbia, Maryland? If so, you've come to the right place. In this article, we'll discuss the restrictions and qualifications for interpreters in this setting, as well as how organizations are promoting access to communication for consumers who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, and deaf-disabled. The time for change has come. Organizations like the Center for Bilingual Mediation are offering training opportunities to help interpreters develop their skills as listeners and reflective educators.
After a session is over, participants must enter codes into the activities page of their Continuing Education Center (CEC) account in order to access their certificate of completion. The QR codes will be linked directly to the activity in the RID Continuing Education Center account, making it easy to access and enter attendance codes. Kenton serves as president of the Alabama Interpreters and Translators Association (ITAA), an organization that works with professionals in more than 12 languages to promote the profession, provide community education, and support continuing education for those working in interpreting and translation. He has published studies on the ethics of deaf interpreters, interpretation at international conferences, and power imbalances in interactions between deaf people and interpreters.
Naomi Sheneman has been working professionally in the acting profession since 2000 in various positions. She and her husband founded Sign Language Connection in Rochester, New York in 1990. Kathy has worked as an adjunct professor of interpretation at several universities in Southern California and is passionate about working with interpreters in a peer mediation environment. This presentation will help provide research behind counterattack spaces, discuss ethical decision-making and best practices in cultural competence, summon accomplices to take advantage of and encourage others, and help participants explore where there may be opportunities to create counterattack spaces where they live. It will also identify resources within their community to promote and uplift interpreters of color in sign language.
Participants will receive a special mediation order with the date of the mediation and instructions for submitting their confidential settlement statement.
