Monday, September 26, 2011

Are you here?

You sub with a regular interpreter for a college class. When the professor takes attendance, the regular interpreter listens for the Deaf students' names and calls "here" at the appropriate time.

Should the interpreter do that? Should the students have the opportunity to call their own attendance?


Thursday, September 15, 2011

You and your team are interpreting at a job training school. The students are doing their work so there isn't any interpreting happening. You chat and read. Finally your team says, "the big boss isn't even here. Let's leave and go get coffee.". You could certainly use a cup. What do you do?