Practice makes perfect!!! Let’s explore some educational interpreting today with a little bit of Math. I know that’s everyone’s least favorite subject, but as an Educational Interpreter, you must learn to interpret many different levels of math.

Today’s Expressive Practice is working on interpreting Proportions. Give it a try!

Today’s Receptive Practice is square roots.

Practice Makes Perfect!! Happy Deaf Awareness Month!! We are nearing the end of the month. But please don’t let that stop you. Please stay abreast of all the issues affecting the Deaf Community and learn how to be a good ally.

Today’s Expressive Practice is Rikki Poynter discussing Police Brutality

Today’s Receptive Practice is Gallaudet University’s Doctorate Student Joseph Santini.

Practice Makes Perfect!! Happy Deaf Awareness Month!! All this month, I will be posting videos of issues in the Deaf Community by members of the Deaf Community.

Today’s Expressive Practice Ren describing “Eleven Things You Should Know About Deaf People”

Today’s Receptive Practice miss Ella Mae Lentz  “A Perspective on Deaf Culture”. Ella is an activist within the community.

Practice Makes Perfect!! Happy Deaf Awareness Month! All throughout the month, I will be posting videos about issues in the Deaf Community from members of the Deaf Community.

Today’s Expressive Practice is Lissa Zeviar. Lissa Zeviar is a Child Of a Deaf Adult (CODA) discussing the Art of Sign Language.

Today’s Receptive Practice is DeafJennyWitty discussing Identifying and Intervening with Deaf Children at Rick of Language Deprivation.

Practice Makes Perfect! Happy Deaf Awareness Month! All this Month I will be posting videos about issues in the Deaf Community from members of the Deaf Community.

Today’s Expressive Practice is Rachel Kolb “Navigating deafness in a hearing world”.

Today’s Receptive Practice is Amy Cohen Efron. Amy is an activist in the Deaf Community and also a psychologist. She discuses language privilege.

Practice Makes Perfect!!  Happy Deaf Awareness Month!! All throughout the Month I will be posting videos about issues in the Deaf Community by Members in the Deaf Community.

Today’s Expressive Practice is Heather Artinian. If you’ve watched Sound and Fury, Heather was the little girl who wanted to get the cochelar implant. She is all grown up now. Hear what she has to say:

Today’s Receptive Practice is from Marvin Miller “Building an ASL Community”. Tip: I would mute it if I were you.

Welcome to HandsUP!!

I am an interpreting student in my senior year at GSU. I wanted to create a website that will help current interpreting students navigate in the world of interpreting just a little by providing resources to help with interpreting students skills or to just help them get involved in the Deaf Community in GA. Thank you for visiting my blog. Feel free to look around, and if there’s any resources on particular topics (fingerspelling, NIC, classifiers, etc.)  you would like me to post, please contact me!

Remember to keep those HANDS UP!! Practice makes perfect!

Practice Makes Perfect. Happy Deaf Awareness Month. All throughout the month I will be posting on issues impacting the Deaf Community by people inside the Deaf Community.

Today’s Expressive Practice is interesting. The video I chose for today’s practice is Drisana Levitzke-Gray. Drisana Levitzke-Gray is the recipient of the 2015 Young Australian of the Year Award in recognition of her passion and dedication in advocating for the human rights of deaf people, raising awareness about Auslan (Australian Sign Language), and the rights of deaf children in Australia to access Auslan from birth. Now She’s getting to be signing in Auslan with a voice intepreter, it’ll be interesting to see the interpretation from Auslan to English to ASL.

Today’s Receptive Practice is Peter C. Hauser, the Director of the Deaf Studies Laboratory (DSL) in the Department of American Sign Language and Interpreting Education at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology. He’s going to discuss Audism and Linguisticism.

Hi!! I know it’s sometimes hard to keep up your skills aside from getting involved in the community. That’s why I decided to start a segment called “Today’s Practice”. It will be two videos, one expressive and one receptive/voicing, for you to practice on to keep up your skills. I will try to post every Tuesday and Thursday for the time being. Hopefully, when school is over, I can post more regularly. Remember to record your videos so you can review them for a later time, and get those hands in the air! As my teacher once said, “If you’re thinking about it, you’re fantasizing!” Let’s make that fantasy into a reality. Some may be challenging, they are optional and you can go at your own pace.

Happy Signing

~K