Programme
Friday 5th October
10.30am SASLI
Introduction
Hilary Third, Scottish Executive Equality Unit
The Executive’s commitment
11.00am Development of the Interpreting Profession
Liz Scott Gibson, WASLI President
Sharing the Silver – a work in progress
Maya De Wit, EFSLI President
Sign Language Interpreting in Europe: what have we accomplished in 25 years and challenges for the next 25 years.
Graham Turner, Heriot Watt University
“Fail again. Fail better." 25 Years of Evolution in Sign Language
Interpreting
12.00pm LUNCH
1.00pm Plenary Session on the Development of the Interpreting Profession
1.30pm Workshops
Ethics & Well-Being |
Improving access to public services |
Caroline Bickerton Sticking plasters and aspirins - first aid for interpreters |
Margaret Allison & Lesley Shoniwa, COPFS Code of Practice for working with Interpreters in a legal setting |
Deaf Action Should I hold the client’s hand? Are my professional ethics compromised by being human? |
Rachel O’Neill Educational interpreting – why isn’t there more of it? |
Nancy Ferguson & Catherine KIng Someone to Watch Over Me: Practitioner Well Being |
SDA Technology and its impact on the field of sign language interpreting |
Scottish Council on Deafness Supporting interpreters working in a counselling setting |
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3.00pm BREAK
3.30pm Engaging with Deaf Community
Christopher Stone and Lorna Allsop – Collective notions of quality of Interpreting: Insights from the British deaf community
Carolyn Nabarro - The 21st Century Sign Language Interpreter – ‘Culture-
less’? Language cannot exist without culture.
Margo Currie – Passionate Engagement
Deaf Action - “It’s a set up! Working with the Deaf community and other
stakeholders to establish a new communication support agency”
4.30pm Plenary Session about Engaging with Deaf Community
5.00pm END OF DAY
Saturday 6th October
9.00am SASLI AGM
10.30am BREAK
Team Interpreting |
Historical & future perspectives |
John Walker From co-working to co-interpreting: definition, application and curriculum. |
John Hay Interpreting for the deaf and dumb in the 19th century Scotland |
Maya De Wit Sharing the experience and knowledge |
Deaf Users Group Future & hopes |
12.00pm LUNCH
1.00pm Plenary Session about the future routes to the interpreting professi
1.45pm Workshops
Development of Deaf Interpreters
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Maintaining Quality Standards in BSL/English Interpreting |
Clark Denmark Deaf Interpreters – 25 years on, a personal perspective and actual phenomena |
Catherine King, Rita McDade, Fiona Stewart & Linda Thomson Cognitive Barriers – L1/L2. Why can’t I get it? |
Judith Collins & John Walker What is a Deaf interpreter? |
RNID Continuous Professional Development |
Christopher Stone & Robert Adam Deaf translators from within the Deaf Community |
SASLI / SASLI Associate Members TBC |
CACDP Sharing the load: evolving qualifications for an evolving profession
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3.45pm Summary
4.00pm END OF CONFERENCE
Abstracts for the above papers are available on our new conference blog, which can be found at http://www.sasli25.com and will be updated regularly to keep everyone up to date with conference news and developments.