training of typing interpreters

[Bill Reese]

Cherie's right, Ingvild (not that she'd be wrong).  :-)

A realtime captionist has volunteered her time every month for my 
group's meetings.  Also, for weekly business meetings.  And there are 
others who fill in for monthly doctor appointments (not for me, but that 
besides the point).  We tend to believe realtime captioning is more for 
those who are late-deafened - who have gone deaf after they've learned 
the primary spoken language - rather than for the cultural deaf, who 
prefer ASL interpreting.

Bill


Cherie Wren wrote:
> They are two separate professions here in the US, speaking as one who 
> has gone through interpreter training.  Training to be a captionist, 
> either real-time or C-print, is a completely different thing, although 
> I know of a few interpreters who have gone through C-print training.  
> C-print is computerized notetaking basically,summarizing the speaker, 
> not a word for word transcription.  Real-time captioning is word for 
> word, and is usually related to courtroom stenography training.  They 
> use the machine with 6 keys, and type like 'chording'.  C-Print is on 
> a regular computer keyboard, although you type phonetically, not 
> regular English spelling.  There might be a couple other systems as 
> well, but these are the only two I have direct knowledge of.
>
> Does that help any?
>
> cherie
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Ingvild Roald <iroald at hotmail.com>
> To: SignWriting List <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2008 1:26:48 PM
> Subject: [sw-l] training of typing interpreters
>
> Hi all,
> I need some help that has nothing to do with SignWriting
>
> Hope I'm not intruding on anyone's feelings or time by posing this 
> question here:
>
> In Norway, sign language interpreters are educated by a three year 
> college study program, after which they are supposed to be able to:
>
> * interpret between spoken Norwegian and Norwegian Sign Language 
> (NTS), for Deaf persons
> * interpret between spoken Norwegian and signed Norwegian (for 
> deafened of HH persons)
> * interpret between spoken Norwegian and tactile NTS (for 
> Deaf-and-Blind persons)
> * type in real time from spoken Norwegian, either exactly or slightly 
> altered to adapt to the linguistic needs  of the deaf/ HH customer, 
> usually at conferences and suchlike
>
> My question concerns this last part:
>
> 1: is it common for sign language interpreters in other countries to 
> perform this task?
> 2: how are the people who do this real time typing educated and 
> trained in other countries?
>
> As I am connected to one of the colleges that provides this education, 
> I hope someone (hopefully more than one, form different parts of the 
> world) can answer. We feel this is too much to cover inside one 
> course, and that the typing task could be done by somebody else who 
> already was a good typist and got an introduction to how Deaf people 
> read Norwegian.
>
> Ingvild
>
> Ingvild
>
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