Stimulated Recalls: Make Your Thinking Visible

Woman with grey hair sits by window pensively looking outside

Aim

To conduct a stimulated recall to identify what you were thinking during the interpretation process.

Time Required for Activity: 15-30 mins

Objective(s):

Interpreters will:

  1. Conduct a Think Aloud Protocol and record their thoughts.
  2. Review their thoughts and identify patterns.  

You can use this activity […]

2022-01-23T16:47:03-06:00April 9th, 2019|

Think Aloud Protocols: Make Your Thinking Visible

Woman with grey hair sits by window pensively looking outside

Aim

To conduct a think aloud protocol to identify patterns in your thinking

Time Required for Activity: 15-30 mins

Objective(s):

Interpreters will:

  1. Conduct a Think Aloud Protocol and record their thoughts.
  2. Review their thoughts and identify patterns.  

You can use this activity to address a […]

2022-01-23T16:48:44-06:00April 8th, 2019|

Texts for Baseline Interpretations

The texts below are provided for you to create a baseline interpretations for Individual Development plans. You can use other texts for this process.  These are simply designed to give you a starting point.  At the end of the monthly plan, you will re-interpret the text and see what progress you have made in improving the features that are targeted by […]

2022-01-23T16:54:17-06:00April 1st, 2019|

Learn about Deafhood

The words Extralinguistic Knowledge written over a Graphic of an open book with a dog standing on page that is covered in grass and has a road on it.

Build your extralinguistic knowledge by learning more about Deafhood.

This post provides you with a series of videos from Paddy Ladd, the author of “Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood.”

Aim

2022-01-23T16:59:23-06:00March 28th, 2019|

Life Kit: Learn to Love Exercise

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This post has a link for three episodes on exercise from Life Kit, a series by National Public Radio.  NPR describes the series this way:

Tools to help you get it together.

NPR’s family of podcasts for navigating your life — everything from your finances to diet and […]

2022-01-23T17:06:56-06:00March 25th, 2019|

Understanding Cultural Dimensions

a Yellow cylinder, blue cube and red pyramid sit on top a piece of white graph paper Developed by Paula MacDonald

Aim

Interpreters work with a variety of cultures.  It is imperative that they be familiar with cultural dimensions and how they will impact cross-cultural communication. This activity will use Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimensions to orient participants to the effects culture […]

2022-01-23T18:21:08-06:00February 26th, 2019|
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