The Mentorship Program : Workshop Detail

Yours, Mine and Ours: Team Interpreting for Hearing Teams

Presented by:
Lesley P. Garey, NAD V, NIC, SC:L
Toni Robbins, CI, CT, SC:L

Sponsored by:
Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Northeastern University Regional Interpreter Education Center, U.S. Department of Education Rehabilitation Services Administration, Interpreter Training Program Grant #H160A-050002-05

Postsecondary Education Programs Network (PEPNet) - Northeast

Educational Level: Introductory, Intermediate, Advanced, Mentor

Target Audience:
Novice and working interpreters, including educational and faith-based interpreters, mentees, mentors, and interpreting students

Description:
This exciting, hands-on workshop focuses on the teaming process, with the goal of having each participant walk away with a greater understanding of who they are as a team member, what they bring to the team, what they need from a team and techniques for working towards a positive and successful teaming experience.

Join Lesley and Toni for teaming practice and analysis in a safe, supportive environment! Participants will work in teams interpreting short texts from sign-to-voice. The source text will be seen only by those interpreting, so participants can more easily focus on the teaming (rather than interpreting) process. Each team will be videotaped for later analysis.

If you have extensive teaming experience, that's great! If you have never worked in a team, that's great, too! Participants will have ample opportunity to work with various colleagues during this dynamic workshop!

When and
Where:

March 20, 2010, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Northeastern University Shillman Hall 115 Forsythe Street, Room 220 Boston, MA

Snow Date(s):
Sunday April 11, 10am-5pm

Parking Information:
For directions and parking information, please see http://www.neu.edu/campusmap/directions.html#top.

Shillman Hall is #30 on the map.

Presented in: Spoken English

CEUs:
The Mentorship Program is an approved RID CMP Sponsor for Continuing Education Activities. This Professional Studies program is offered for .6 CEU/ACET at the Professional Content Knowledge level.

Cost: $75; Reduced fee $45 for interpreting students and recent interpreting graduates (08, 09); Lunch will be provided.

Registration Deadline:
March 10, 2010. To register, please print registration form (see left navigation box) and mail in with fee.

Reasonable Accomodations:
Requests for reasonable accommodations must be made in writing by February 20, 2010.

Cancellation Policy:
Fees paid for workshops are non-refundable. In the event of an emergency, fees paid may be applied to another workshop within the same fiscal year. If a workshop is cancelled and a back-up date (e.g., snow date) was not published, fees paid will be refunded.

Contact:
Irma Kahle at irma.kahle@massmentorship.org.

About the Presenters

Lesley P. Garey
Lesley P. Garey, NAD V, NIC, SC:L, was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. She graduated in 1996 from an ITP at Grant MacEwan Community College in Edmonton, Alberta. Combined with a diploma in Gerontology, she was employed at the Bob Rumball Center for the Deaf in Toronto, with a populace of elderly Deaf and Deaf-Blind residents. After immigrating to New Hampshire in 1997, she was an educational interpreter for the Manchester Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and then spent five years as a full-time staff interpreter at a community mental health center. Those experiences prepared her for NAD V in 2000. She has since focused on the criminal justice field and commits her full-time schedule to interpreting in legal settings. Lesley has been involved in mentoring as both a mentor and a protege.

Toni Robbins
Toni Robbins, CI, CT, SC:L, was raised in northern New Hampshire and has Deaf grandparents. After graduating from an ITP in 1986, focusing on Educational Interpreting, Toni gained employment at the Portsmouth Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing where she interpreted for six years. Her years with the Portsmouth Program included interpreting for primary as well as high school students, including academia and extracurricular activities. After leaving the Portsmouth Program, Toni began working at Granite State Independent Living Foundation as a Staff Interpreter and Coordinator for the only Statewide Interpreter Referral Service. She left that position after six years to expand on her freelance practice. Toni has been a practitioner for twenty years with an emphasis on legal interpreting. She has been involved in mentoring, as both a mentor and protege.

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