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