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Sign Language Interpreter and American Sign Language (ASL) Resources and Articles
Compassionate Professionalism – End of Life Interpreting
What is your client doing at this stage? Your client is dying and probably knows it. They are experiencing a whole array of uncomfortable physical symptoms. They are drowsy and unresponsive some of the time and confused about time and place and even who is in the room...
Becoming An ASL Interpreter
“Do you have Deaf family? How did you learn ASL?” These are the two most common questions I get when walking into an assignment with a Deaf client that I have never interpreted for previously. My answer to the first question is no. My answer to the second question is...
Secondary Traumatic Stress
What is Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS)? Secondary Traumatic Stress (and its kin terms: Empathic Distress, Vicarious Trauma, and Secondary Victimization) is: Emotional, physical, or spiritual distress precipitated by exposure to people or animals who are experiencing...