VRSUnique Controls?

Challenging Work

Work toward the Goal

Working toward the Goal of the Environment Telecommunication Access

Telecommunication Access & Institutional Authority

A VERY brief History

ProblemsTHEN: :

SOLUTION: Veditz's Vision Appeal for videophone

Problems Problems Problems

Now:Privitazation and Profits Negative Impact on Communities Quality of Service Standardization

Interpreter Training

Top 3 SolutionsTraining, Training, Training

Research Based Curriculum

Methodology

D-C SCHEMA

SUPERVISION

D-C-C-RD

Interpersonal Paralinguistic

Environmental Intrapersonal

Interpersonal

Environmental

Paralinguistic Intrapersonal

Demands

Demands

• Factors that rise to a level of significance impacting the interpreter’s work

Demands

• Interpersonal: Interactions

• Paralinguistic: Expressive skills

• Environmental: Setting

• Intrapersonal: Specific to Interpreter

Controls

• Specific response to demand or constellation of demands

•Identify unique ethical and effective responses to demands in VRS setting

Pre-, During, and Post

Assignment Controls

Controls

• Controls may be categorized within 3 primary roles (multidimensional roles):

Presentation of Self Call Management Participant Alignment

PARTICIPANTS: VRSInterpreters with D-C S

training, supervision experience

Findings? To date it has been wonderful collaborating with the first cohort of MAIS students, Amanda Smith, and Elisa Maroney.

More Shall be Revealed

• And explored

• And researched

• And debated

Resources:

• Llewellyn-Jones, P & Lee, R.G. (2011).  Revisiting Role:  Arguing for a multi-dimensional analysis of interpreter hehaviour, paper presented at the Supporting Deaf People online Conference, January 2011.

• Oldman, N.L. (2010).  A competency model for video relay interpreters.  International Journal of Interpreter Education, 2 (pp.41-57)

• Peterson, Rico (2011).  Profession in pentimento:  A narrative inquiry into interpreting in video settings.  In L. Swabey & B. Nicodemus (Eds.), Advances in interpreting research (199-223) Amsterdam, Netherlands:  John Benjamins.

• Taylor, M.M. (2005).  Video Relay Services:  Interpreting Task Analysis Report.  distance Opportunities for Interpreter Training Center, Denver, Colorado. http://www.unco.edu/doit/Article?VRS%20Task%20Force20Report.pdf.

• Dean, R. K. & Pollard, R. Q (2004, October). A practice-profession model of ethical reasoning. VIEWS, 21(9), 1, 28-29.

• Brunson, J.L. (2011). Video Relay Service Interpreters: Intricacies of Sign Language Access. Galluadet University Press, Washington, D.C.