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ID: Blonde Caucasian female wearing navy blue shirt in front of black curtain background delivering message in ASL
Hello everybody!
My name is Lisa Anderson (sign name), I have a curious question for you all, are you itching to get out of the house, see some people in a SAFE environment, and want a chance to earn money, a $100.00 thank you honorarium?
Just in case some of you didn’t know, I am working for the Program of Sign Language Interpreting at Douglas College.
In this pandemic, it is a challenging time, schools, elementary, highschool and college is considered essential services with learning opportunities. This includes Douglas college students in the Program of Sign Language Interpretation. It means that Interpreter students are going to the campus in person for their classes.
The student interpreters are experiencing less interaction with Deaf people, they are having less opportunities to meet Deaf community members and see different people’s signing styles to be able to develop receptive skills as interpreter students.
In the past the College had Retreat weekend, where the students had opportunities to practise their interpreting and meet Deaf community members, but with COVID-19 things have changed. Instead, there are 3 separate days, 1 day on-campus once a month, where they have Practical Learning opportunities. The day looks like 4 Deaf community members come and Roleplay in conversation with 4 hearing people that don’t know sign language, and this gives the interpreting students a chance to practice their interpreting skills with opportunities to receive feedback for their learning process. This takes a whole day.
We had a successful day last January 27, four Deaf community members, 4 hearing people came to the campus, it went smoothly, everyone felt safe and comfortable, and we did Roleplays where the students had a chance to practise their interpreting skills on campus.
Douglas College is following all provincial health guidelines with COVID-19 rules, protocols and expectations: 3: 1 – physically distancing at 6 feet, 2 – wearing non-medical masks, 3 – frequent washing hands and sanitizing. When campus visitors come to campus, there is a security guard that asks screening questions to let people on campus, or not. This is done to protect everyone at the college.
All students sit spaced out (physically distanced) in one large double sized classroom, and all are wearing masks, frequent sanitizing takes place in the classrooms, and then for activities or group work a smaller number of students are split into 4 separate classrooms.
Are you interested?
Contact me at email to andersonl10@douglascollege.ca which appears below or above this video.
Note: Right now, I’m working on the schedule for Wednesday February 24th. Please contact us ASAP, thank you.
