Supporting Deaf People: online conference

Sessions

• Harlan Lane (USA): The people of the eye: deaf ethnicity and ancestry, keynote presentation
• Steve Emery (UK): We are familiar with the group but what about the rights? Deaf people and multicultural citizenship, keynote presentation
• Jeff Brattan-Wilson (UK): Advocate and interpreter: friends or foes?
• Jen Dodds (UK): Nothing to hide? Power, transparency and trust between the BSL/English interpreter and the deaf client: looking at issues relating to the power dynamic
• Liz Scully (Canada): A deaf perspective on what does and does not make a good hearing citizen
• Peter Llewellyn-Jones and Robert G Lee (UK): Revisiting 'role': arguing for a multi-dimensional analysis of interpreter behaviour
• Jennifer Smith (UK) and Arun C Rao (India): Not a charity case: a discussion of the use of Western assistance in the development of the interpreting profession in India
• Goedele De Clerck (Belgium) and Sam Lutalo-Kiingi (Uganda): Partnership of academic, deaf communities and NGOs in deaf empowerment and development
• Pawlos Kassu (Ethiopia): The role of foreign aid in empowering the deaf in Africa, a case study in Ethiopia
• Jules Dickinson and Anne Darby (UK): 'Have we spelled Sarah-Anne's name right?': accessing a workplace community of practice
• Kathryn Mason (UK): Identifying specific language impairment in British Sign Language: implications for theory and practice
• Richard Brumberg (USA): Happy campers: the ins and outs of interpreting at summer camps in the US
• Andy Owen (UK): Sign language interpreters and education: a prickly mix?
• Karen Bontempo and Bethel Hutchinson (Australia): 'Please Sir, can I have some more?': a case study of performance management of educational interpreters in Australia
• Jemina Napier and Marcel Leneham (Australia): 'It was difficult to manage the communication': testing the feasibility of video remote signed language interpreting in courts
• Gary Morgan (UK): On the origins of theory and mind: conversational input and belief attribution in deaf and hearing infants

Cost is £70, or £55 if you are a full member of ASLI, VLP, ACSW or ANP.