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Date Posted: 04:30:15 05/07/03 Wed
Hey there everyone,
I'm glad that the forum is being used. It's a great thing...but it's always so hard to remember the damn web address. I think that I've contacted Steph every time I want to go to the address. I just had an epiphany: put the address in my "favorites." Duh.
Okay, so how is everyone's internship? I'm almost done. RIT has two more weeks left of classes. I've really enjoyed everything and have gotten a lot of different experiences. It's amazing what variety there is in our field. For instance, I've seen everything from a strong oral perspective, to transliterating, to cochlear implants to strong ASL...these are the Deaf students perspectives, of course interpreters here try to match their communication preferences. It was interesting talking to one guy about his feeling for oralism. He grew up in an oral school and the first time that he was exposed to ASL, Sign Language was when there was a new student orientation at RIT. In fact, I've met several people that that has been their first exposure. As far as C.I., there are a ton of students here with them. In fact, at one of our CORE team meetings, we learned that because the technology was new about twenty years ago, we're getting an influx of students with C.I.'s now. This year there are 70 students, but by 2005, there should be 350. That means our profession is changing and we have to work with the Deaf students to figure out the best style of communication. Also, another interesting thing...there's this thing called C-Print. It's a real-time captioner that sits in on classes and then prints the lecture as the teacher talks. It's replacing interpreting positions here. Four of our positions are being lost to C-Print. Mostly that is for students who prefer to read English, rather than use sign. Interesting though.
Other than that, I've been contracted with a local interpreting agency. I was psyched. I had my first assignment offer...which I used "professional discretion..." You'll never guess what it was...okay, imagine your first freelancing job at a Gynocology Appointment!! :) Yeah,...no...
Ryan just came to visit. We had a great time, went to Niagrara Falls in Canada and just hung out. He got to see Arbor, which was nice. I miss the guy.
Sorry to ramble so much. Keep writing.
Miss ya all,
Suz
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