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Building a Business: Office Supplies are the Easy Part
Let me start by tipping my cap and offering my thanks to the longtime practitioners and business owners and operators that have together persevered to form and publicly legitimize what we know as—our...
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Are You an Artist or Just the Sign Language Interpreter?
Lou Fant You know them, the sign language interpreter “everyone loves, everyone wants to hire, and everyone wants to work with.” Where do people with this perfect blend of supernatural skill and...
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What Characteristics Should the New RID Executive Director Have?
The removal of longtime Executive Director, Clay Nettles, on the eve of the 2011 RID National conference came as quite a surprise. See the official information release here. A change in leadership...
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Sign Language Interpreting—An Industry Past Feeling?
It is often said that the anonymity of living in a big city and the effort to avoid feeling imposed on by the crush of humanity, makes people hard and unfeeling. After all, it’s only in the big city...
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The Goo at the Center of a Sign Language Interpreter
If a sign language interpreter could reach inside and scoop out the goo that makes them who they are, a mixture of artistic judgment, emotional labor, and organic creativity would drip from their...
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A Sign Language Interpreter is a Sidewalk-Executive?
The sign language interpreting marketplace is peppered with interpreting companies big and small; some are uber successful and others not so much. Let’s be honest, they are telling a similar story and...
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Sign Language Interpreters and the Karma of Gratitude
Unemployment, wage reductions, and scant opportunity are just a few things that can describe the last year for sign language interpreters. I believe it easy, given the industry turmoil, for...
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How Sign Language Interpreters Survive a Professional Shakedown
You’re traveling along, like you do on any given day when suddenly you feel the muzzle of a gun pressed against the back of your head and hear, “give me your high rate of pay, all your premium...
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Sign Language Interpreters – Complicit in a Devil’s Bargain?
Dennis Cokely Five decades ago those of us who functioned as sign language interpreters were allies of Deaf people, united with them in fighting for communicative access to the various services and...
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FCC VRS Reform Part II – Sign Language Interpreters File Public Comment
The charge of emotion sign language interpreters received at the hand of VRS Reform, while important in prompting us to action, can be detrimental if not checked when filing comment with the FCC....
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StreetLeverage: The 2015 Posts that Moved Us
As a way to welcome 2016, we handpicked 10 posts that inspired reflection, demonstrated courageous thinking, or generated spirited conversation. It is our guess that you were moved by some of these...
View ArticleWill Sign Language Interpreters Remain Silent on FCC VRS Reform?
With the FCC’s proposed restructuring of the VRS rate structure, the fate of sign language interpreters is called into question. Brandon Arthur suggests the path forward requires mobilization and...
View ArticleHow do Sign Language Interpreters Increase Opportunity in a Weak Economy?
How often do we as sign language interpreters think about the demands placed on an interpreter scheduler? Brandon Arthur challenges us to reach out and become true partners with this integral position...
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