WASLI Newsletter March 2022

WASLI Newsletter

2 March 2022

Newsletter March 2022

Some resources These may point you in the right direction to offer assistance to deaf people and sign language interpreters in need:

Useful information regarding accessible humanitarian ai Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action humanitariandisabilitycharter.org

Guide for those seeking international protectio

We are all witnessing another humanitarian disaster in Ukraine. Many of us are looking for ways to o er support. We understand that the above routes will support deaf Ukrainians and interpreters known to the Ukrainian Deaf Association

Belgium: guide on how to assist deaf and hard of hearing people seeking international

Please note that you need to specify the support as follows

protection in Dutch and

‘Support to the rights of deaf Ukrainians’

French.

wfdeaf.org/donate ‘Ukrainian Society of the Deaf ’

Information for those arriving in Berli

www.cufoundation.ca

Information for (deaf)

Fill out this form if you have any availability to support CLEAR Global and TWB Rapid Response in Ukraine (providing translations and interpretations

Ukrainian refugees arriving in Berlin, Germany in Ukrainian, German, English and

We note the great collaboration between our Ukrainian and Russian member associations within the WASLI family

International Sign.

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WASLI - reporter?

Are you interested in being a reporter for the newsletter? If so please contact: secretary.wasli@gmail.com We are looking for stories from all regions that our members would be interested in.

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The Big Reveal: WASLI 2023 conference logo

all year round! You can make a

The WASLI 2023 Conference Organising Committee issued an expression of interest via social media calling for submission of a proposal for a logo for the WASLI Conference 2023 to be held in South Korea. A total of six submissions from deaf artists were received - three from Malaysia, two from Singapore, and one from Jordan. Their proposals were reviewed and deliberations were held.

donation through our PayPal Donation button: wasli.org/donation Or donate via bank transfer - if so please contact our Treasurer Nigel Howard at: treasurer.wasli@gmail.com

The logo was required to meet the conference theme “Shaping our World for a better future” and use a colour scheme re ecting elements of Korean culture. Based on these criteria, three designs were shortlisted for the WASLI Board to consider.

Or become a member and/or encourage your professional association to become a member: individual-member national-membership organisation-member If you wish to support WASLI in other ways: •

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Reach out to your Regional Representative (RR) and Regional Deaf Interpreter Advisor (R-DIA) regional-representatives

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GoReact WASLI is proud to announce a unique partnership with GoReact to help us achieve ef ciency and excellence in assessing applicant submissions for the WASLI-WFD IS interpreting accreditation.

Through GoReact, applicants can submit their interpretation work online from the comfortable setting of their own choice.

The raters will access the content online and can provide their assessment directly on the video submissions.

The winner was the Jordanian designer, Mr Hussam Mohammad awwad El Farra. He is a talented designer who has designed many commercial products for over a decade. A round of applause for him designing our beautiful WASLI 2023 conference logo Description: The logo incorporates three emphatic curled shapes encircling an imagined conference room. A set of three dots circling the three shapes was adapted from Obangsaek (오방색), which is the traditional Korean colour spectrum consisting of white, black, blue, yellow, and red. The curved shapes and dots are individually painted with blue, yellow and red. Ten white icons are can be seen imprinted nicely and t in the curved shapes. These represent South Korean cultural elements, such as dress, food, building, music, fan, and dance.

The text below the logo uses three colours - blue, red and black. The use of colours is well balanced

What is GoReact?

GoReact humanises and simpli es skills-based learning

WASLI Representation

through a proven combination of video and feedback.

Academic institutions and training programs worldwide use GoReact to facilitate scalable video observation, coaching, and assessment.

With simple, exible tools for experiential learning, GoReact helps all learners develop and demonstrate skill competency.

See how GoReact empowers con dent skills at: https://get.goreact.com/asl/ Interested in nding out more?

Contact the international representative, Jenny Gordon at: jenny@goreact.com

WASLI Secretary, Isabelle Heyerick, was invited to report on the work WASLI has done over the 2021 – 2022 period at our National Member BVGT (Association of Flemish Sign Language Interpreters) annual general meeting in January.

Our secretary highlighted some of the challenges the pandemic posed and shared some of our achievements. These included the creation of the WASLI deaf and hearing regional representatives’ network, the July online conference, the piloting of the Leadership Modules, and the IS interpreting accreditation scheme. The Flemish colleagues also got a sneak peek at the WASLI 2023 conference logo and are warmly invited to join us in South Korea

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ISAAB- IS interpreter accreditation ISAAB are delighted to announce the pre-accreditation (11 interpreters) and accreditation of (15 interpreters) in one of both directions. For a full list of all IS accredited interpreters, please visit https://wasli.org/is-accredited-interpreters Here is an overview of the recently pre- and accredited interpreters.

Congratulations Pre-Accreditation:

English <> IS

French <> IS

Spanish <> IS

Spanish > IS

Samuel Chew

Sylvia LeClerc

Fernando Barbosa

Leyre Suijana Casado

Karolien Gebruers

English > IS

IS > English

Drisana Levitzke-Gray Natasha Parkins-Maliko Stef Linder

Leyre Suijana Casado

Tessa Padden

Tina Vrbanic

Lori Whynot

Accreditation:

English <> IS

French <> IS

Spanish <> IS

Fernando Barbosa

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Santiago Parra

Romy O’ Callaghan Robert Skinner

English > IS

IS > English

Razaq Fakir

Lori Whynot

Adam McCormack Natasha Parkins-Maliko Leyre Subijana Casado Tina Vrbanic

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WASLI-WFD International Sign Interpreting Accreditation Ca for Applications WASLI and WFD are pleased to announce that applications for both pre-accredited International Sign interpreters and accredited International Sign interpreters will open very soon.

You can apply for pre-accreditation or full accreditation as an International Sign interpreter between the following language pairs

(spoken/written) English – IS and/or IS – Englis (spoken/written) Spanish – IS and/or IS – Spanis (spoken/written) French – IS and/or IS – Frenc

You will have until March 28 2022 to submit your full application.

Watch for details on how to apply via our Facebook, Twitter and our mailing list

Something for the WASLI newsletter?

If you have something to share in the WASLI newsletter please let your Regional Representative and Regional Deaf Interpreter advisor know and we can share it with our global interpreting community

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