MAY 18TH 2024

GARID MEMBER APPRECIATION DAY(MAD)

GaRID is MAD about you!

Come to learn, renew, mingle, network, fellowship, make new friends, see old friends.

Presenter: Dr. Suzette Garay

CEO Diversity Academy for Interpreters (DAI)

Moving from Allyship toward an Antiracist Approach for Interpreters

This 4-hour Antiracist workshop focuses on how to develop antiracist skills for effectively incorporating Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) principals, specifically, moving from an allyship approach toward what to do and what not do when incorporating DEIB Antiracist actions. Participants will explore how biases and stereotypes form in our interpreter profession, do a self-analysis, and consider how these factors may impact their work toward becoming antiracist interpreters. Participants will have hands-on opportunities to practice with variety of scenarios representing racism, oppression, and further developing their individual basic antiracist skills into a plan of action.

*note* CEU information to follow shortly.

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BUSINESS MEETING DURING FREE LUNCH, included in registration.

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Dr. Suzette Garay- is a Deaf Person of Color (DPOC) and a third generational Latina(x) from South America, Nicaragua and a third member of a family who was born Deaf. She holds the following degrees: BA, MA. PSY.S, and a Ph.D. Her major areas of studies are Special Education with an emphasis on Deafness and Learning Disabilities, Psychology, and teaching of American Sign Language. She is currently a retired Educational Psychologist who has worked with DHHDB+ children for more than 15+ years and currently teaches several online diversity & culturally responsive courses and through her own business at Diversity Academy and previously through the CAITE Behavioral Health Interpreter Program. She also owns a private consultation practice working with many families, individuals, and private business owners about interpreting, accessibility, diversity, and advocacy with diverse DHHDB+ consumers.

Dr. Garay has the following qualifications: 25+ years of direct teaching, evaluating, and mentoring with Special Education students, ASL/Interpreter students, community/educational interpreters, and/or community business members whom use American Sign Language for communicating with their DHHDB+ consumers. She also has a long history of invaluable personal experiences and success teaching, evaluating, and mentoring diverse deaf individuals and/or consumers from underprivileged socio-economic backgrounds.

She has taught distance education online courses and workshops in ASL Linguistics, Special Education, and disability social justice issues throughout the Midwest and at the international or national levels. She is also a nationally certified American Sign Language Instructor and state certified master consultant and professional development trainer who enjoys working with families and very young children teaching them how to utilize American Sign Language with preverbal babies and those with communication disorders. Dr. Garay can be reached for future workshops and/or consultations at www.thediversityacademy.com.

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Fall Member Appreciation Day / Annual Member Meeting

When
13 Nov 2021
9:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Location
Virtual
Spaces left
39

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Non-Member – $35.00

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Pronoun Use and Social Status: How We May Unintentionally Shift the Power Balance

Presented by Kiva Bennett

Presented in ASL

Workshop 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (0.3 PS CEUs)

Lunch 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

GaRID Business Meeting will start at 12:30 PM

Workshop Description

When we interact we co-construct social status relationships, and these relationships are fluid, not fixed. Think of an interpreter who has much more experience than you, and whose work you admire and respect. You might assume that their status would be higher than yours during a teamed assignment. But what if the assignment was their first time in a setting that you frequent with consumers and content you knew well? That interpreter would likely defer to your expertise, reversing the social status relationship. There is no inherent value in being higher or lower status in a particular context, but we do act according to our perceptions of status.

Language is one way we construct and enact our status relationships, and pronouns give us clues about each person’s perceptions of status. Pronouns are a subgroup of function words that often go unnoticed in the shadow of content words like nouns and verbs, but their use is linked to where the user’s attention is focused. Research has shown that pronouns, specifically first person singular pronouns, signal the perceived relative social status of conversation partners in American English, and there is emerging research suggesting a similar pattern in ASL. This emerging research is my dissertation, currently in progress.

When an interaction is interpreted, the interpreter becomes an additional participant, like it or not. Understanding how pronouns perform status can help interpreters mitigate unintentionally misrepresenting how deaf and hearing consumers perceive one another, and thus how consumers co-construct their own social status relationships.

Educational Objectives

1. Participants will be able to identify and analyze pronoun use in their own language (interpreted and direct communication)

2. Participants will be able to explain research linking pronoun use and social status

3. Participants will be able to design practice activities for reducing pronoun-related intrusions

Zoom link will be sent via email the day before the event. Please make sure your name is displayed on your zoom account to receive access to the workshop.