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SDD19: Don't Be Scared: Understanding ASL and Deaf Culture
Hours: 1.33
This workshop is designed to improve your basic communication skills with deaf people and basic signing ability that is frequently used in the ACC setting, as well as a survival guide to signing. While we cannot separate our language and culture, we will provide a guide for participants to grow a better understanding of Deaf Culture through demonstration and activities. The goal of this workshop is to bring comfort in everybody while working around deaf people.
A participant will walk away with:
-A better understanding of Deaf Culture
-Knowledge of how to communicate with deaf people in five ways
-A better understanding how to interact with deaf people
Fallon Brizendine holds a Masters in Interpretation from Gallaudet University, one of the few Deaf interpreters to hold this degree. As a RID Certified Deaf Interpreter, she has been interpreting in post-secondary, legal, medical, mental health, and educational settings and provided numerous workshops on interpreting topics nationwide. She has taught ASL and interpreting courses, coordinated interpreting internship program and is currently serving as Department Chair in ASL Interpreter program. In summer of 2018, her contributed chapter “Hey Listen, Mainstream Students Deserve More!” was published in Tom K. Holcomb’s “Deaf Eyes on Interpreting”. A die hard Washington Redskins football fan, she hopes to one day score the game winning touchdown in the Super Bowl. |
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