Iowa State Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf

2010-03-16 - Spring Conference 2010

Track 1—Friday & Saturday “They’ve got guns… What am I supposed to say?” Scripts and Best Practices for working in Law Enforcement with Adam Bartley

Track 2—Friday

Medical & Mental Health Services: Interpreters as a Critical Component for Success—Competencies with Richard Laurion

Track 2—Saturday Medical Interpreting & Legal Issues: Working on the Scalpel’s Edge! with Richard Laurion

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Recent Updates

Interpreter Bulletin

September-6-2010

Iowa Association of the Deaf September Newsletter

CLICK HERE to view the September IAD Newsletter.

August-30-2010

Does Your Language Shape How You Think?

"Seventy years ago, in 1940, a popular science magazine published a short article that set in motion one of the trendiest intellectual fads of the 20th century. . .Benjamin Lee Whorf let loose an alluring idea about language’

August-20-2010

Mobile Sign Language being developed at UW

"Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle are building the first mobile devices to effectively transmit American Sign Language via compressed video over a 3G cellular network. . ." By Matt Hamblen.&n

August-8-2010

U.S. Senate passes Video Access Act

"The U.S. Senate passed the Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (S. 3304) on August 5, 2010, by unanimous consent . . ." CLICK HERE to read about this Act.

August-8-2010

DSCI's August E-News

CLICK HERE to access DSCI's August E-News (as well as previous month's newsletters, too).