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Welcome to pd4me

Join the new professional development resource for visual language interpreters and related professionals brought to you by ASLI and RNID.

The site is free to use and contains resources contributed from across the world. If you have a resource you would like to share, please send it to us.

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Do you need advice or have a professional issue you want to discuss? Visit our forums and find out what your colleagues views are.

Dilemmas

Learn from your colleagues' experiences and mistakes.  Visit our collection of real life dilemmas and scenarios

What's new

They Know Each Other

Dilemmas

This is the first time that you have interpreted for two people who know each other well. During the assignment the hearing person asks you a direct question.

Doctor Acts Like a Jerk

Dilemmas

You're asked to interpret a medical appointment. While the Deaf patient is getting undressed, you step into the hall. You hear the nurse and doctor laughing and saying that when they go back into the room, it's going to look like Sea World because the patient looks like Shamu the whale.

Coming Up

February 2009Exercise Section

Have you identified an area for development in your PDP? Check our Exercises section to see if there is an exercise that will be useful or share an exercise that you have created with your colleagues.

The Centre for Deaf Studies in Bristol is offering an exciting new course this August. The Sign Language Literature and Folklore course considers the linguistic, literary and cultural aspects of sign language literature. The course also considers sign language narratives, poetry and humour, looking at the signed texts and the performance of those texts. An essential part of this course will be the in-depth study of the work of Deaf poets, humorists and skilled narrators of sign language stories. For further information click the link above.

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