The conference will take place between the 9-12th February, 2011
The pre-conference reading week starts 2nd
February, so sign up before then to get the most out of the conference!
This year's themes are:
* Rights, charity and control
* Communication, Education and the Future
Sessions:
* Keynote presentation: The People of the
Eye: Deaf ethnicity and ancestry by Harlan Lane (USA)
* Keynote presentation: We are familiar with
the group but what about the rights? Deaf people
and multicultural citizenship by Steve Emery (UK)
* Advocate and Interpreter: friends or foes? by Jeff Brattan-Wilson (UK)
* Nothing to hide? Power, transparency and
trust between the BSL/English interpreter and the
Deaf client - looking at issues relating to the
power dynamic by Jen Dodds (UK)
* A Deaf perspective on what does and does
not make a good hearing citizen by Liz Scully (Canada)
* Re-visiting 'Role': Arguing for a
multi-dimensional analysis of interpreter
behaviour by Peter Llewellyn-Jones and Robert G. Lee (UK)
* Not a Charity Case: A discussion on the use
of Western assistance in the development of the
interpreting profession in India by Jennifer
Smith (UK) and Arun C. Rao (India)
* Partnership of academia, Deaf communities,
and NGOs in Deaf empowerment and development by
Goedele De Clerck (Belgium) and Sam Lutalo-Kiingi (Uganda)
* The role of foreign aid in empowering the
Deaf in Africa, a case study in Ethiopia by Pawlos Kassu (Ethiopia)
* 'Have we spelt Sarah-Anne's name right?':
accessing a workplace community of practice by
Jules Dickinson and Anne Darby (UK)
* Identifying specific language impairment in
British Sign Language: Implications for theory and Practice Kathryn Mason (UK)
* Happy Campers: The ins and outs of
interpreting at summer camps in the US by Richard Brumberg (USA)
* Sign Language Interpreters and Education: a
prickly mix? by Andy Owen (UK)
* "Please Sir, can I have some more?" A case
study of performance management of educational
interpreters in Australia by Karen Bontempo and Bethel Hutchinson (Australia)
* “It was difficult to manage the
communication”: Testing the feasibility of video
remote signed language interpreting in courts by
Jemina Napier and Marcel Leneham (Australia)
* On the origins of theory of mind:
Conversational input and belief attribution in
deaf and hearing infants by Gary Morgan (UK)
For more info see here:
http://www.online-conference.net/sdp2011/introduction.htm
Cost is UK£70, but you get a £15 discount if you
are a full member of ASLI, VLP, ACSW or the ANP.
Contact us for a discount code.
If you have not attended an SDP conference
before, and are curious about how it works, we've
put together a short video here:
http://www.online-conference.net/sdp2010/SDP_demo.html
(video with subtitles, 3 minutes).
Our online conferences are easy, you need no
special knowledge, equipment or software and they
are really, really convenient - participate from work, home or on the move!
Book today: http://online-conference.net/sdp2011/booking.htm
Judith Mole
Direct Learn Services Ltd.
Company no: 04268722
