2019 WASLI Newsletter #8

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PRESIDENT’S WORDS

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REPORT

Read a message from

Michelle Ashley, WASLI

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INTERVIEW

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EVENTS

Liz Mendoza talked with

Check out the upcoming

WASLI’s President, Debra

Conference Chairperson,

Christopher Tester,

events about deaf

Russell, about recent

reports on how the

International Sign Interpreter

communities, sign language

activities of WASLI.

conference is taking shape.

at United Nations.

studies, translation and interpreting studies.

WASLI

newsletter.

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no. 8

2019

France-Germany-Haiti-India-Iran-Ireland-Japan-Jordan-Kenya-Kosovo-Latvia-Lithuania-Macau-Malawi-Malaysia-Morocco-NepalNew Zealand-Nigeria-Norway-Pakistan-Peru-Philippines-Portugal-Puerto Rico-Russia-Saudi Arabia-Scotland-Serbia-Singapore-SpainSweden-Taiwan-The Netherlands-Uganda-USA-Uruguay-Argentina-Australia-Austria-Belgium-Bolivia-Botswana-Brazil-CanadaColombia-Costa Rica-Cuba-Denmark-England-Fiji-Finland-France-Germany-Haiti-India-Iran-Ireland-Japan-Jordan-Kenya-Kosovo-

WASLI CONFERENCE 2019

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President’s words Debra Russell

D e a r M e m b e r s a n d WA S L I Supporters,

biography, she is well-prepared to serve in this part-time role of just a few hours per week. Join me in warmly welcoming her to our WASLI, and if you are coming to Paris, please introduce yourself to her.

I also want to thank those people who have stepped forward to run for the next board of WASLI – you will see their biographies and platforms in the Meeting Package that will go out in June.

Some of you have asked if this means we are saying goodbye to our other part-time contractor, Heather Shores.

No, not at al! Heather is our membership coordinator based in Canada, and she will be staying with us for at least another year as we work to establish a stable office in Geneva and allow Irene to focus on the financial and governance functions.

Heather is Deaf, and has a variety of roles in her community, as a teacher of American Sign Language, a volunteer with several Deaf organizations and as a mother to an outstanding musician. She has also done an outstanding job as membership coordinator, taking over from Robin Demko, and ensuring that each of the membership processes are firmly in place across all of our membership categories.

As many of you know, WASLI has been working towards having our legal seat in Switzerland and we have been able to move this process now to the steps of having our revised bylaws reviewed by legal counsel in Switzerland and they will be filed later this month. One requirement of Swiss law is that we must have a resident manager living in the country. We have successfully recruited Irene Strasly as our first manager. As you can see from her

As I write this, I am heading off to provide presentations and training in two countries – Jordan and then Lithuania. Christopher Stone and I will have the pleasure of working with sign language interpreters and Deaf leaders for 5 days of training in Amman on topics of ethics, interpreting processes, assessment and strategies for developing regular interpreter training in that country.

Our thanks to Majdi Yaghi for organizing these events and to Kaspar

Reading this newsletter has me even more excited to welcome delegates to our WASLI 2019 conference! Sincere thanks to Michelle Ashley and her team of volunteers in Paris and throughout the world. Each of them have made tremendous contributions to prepare an outstanding program in one of the world's most beautiful cities. For those not able to join us, stay tuned for information about ways you can watch the keynote presentations that will be live streamed.

Bergmann, Danish project manager, for inviting WASLI to participate in this training. Following Jordan, I will have the pleasure of travelling to Vi l n i u s t o c e l e b r a t e t h e 1 0 t h anniversary of the Lithuanian Sign Language Interpreters Association, and to provide presentations on the ways that interpreters can support Deaf people's human rights, and training for interpreters from Lithuania, Poland, Latvia and Iceland. I look forward to learning from all of the interpreters I will be with over the next two weeks. Special thanks to Arunas Brazinskas and Ramune Leonaviciene from Lithuania for inviting WASLI to be part of this week.

Again, to those planning to attend our conference, we are excited to welcome you to Paris. If you are not able to attend, consider donating to support delegates from other countries. We are still fundraising for our sponsored delegates so I encourage you to come together with colleagues and help sponsor a delegate from an emerging country.

Every contribution helps. You can donate anytime, using our Donate Button at www.wasli.org.

If you have questions or comments for the board, please email me any time at president.wasli@gmail.com.

And to each interpreter that continues to help us build WASLI, thank you for your volunteer efforts!

Sincerely.

WASLI Visit Jordan and Lithuania Debra Russell and Christopher Stone (WASLI European representative) train and meet with the interpreter and deaf community.

During April 06-11, 2019, WASLI was invited to

funding this work.

participate in some community development and training

Debra then continued on to Lithuania to celebrate the 10th

with the Deaf community in Jordan. Debra Russell and

anniversary of the Lithuanian Sign Language Interpreters.

Christopher Stone traveled to Amman Jordan to teach with

This week also involved high-level political meetings with

the project which is sponsored by the Denmark Deaf

Lithuanian government and ministry officials along with

Society. They spent three days working with sign language

members of the Lithuanian Deaf Association, the Belarus

interpreters, exploring the basic aspects of interpreter role

Deaf Association and members of the Latvian Deaf

and function, ethical decision making and understanding

Association. These meetings allowed WASLI to support

the cognitive processing steps necessary for effective

our partners in advocating for high quality sign language

interpreting. The group of 20 interpreters all work as

interpreters and to stress the many accomplishments that

interpreters, however none had experienced training

Lithuanian has made, including having a three-year

specific to interpreting. This was followed by a day

interpreter training program, and consistent government

working with 10 Sign Language Teachers, thinking about

interpreting services operated through regional interpreter

steps to creating a stronger foundation of interpreter

centres. The week also included a day long conference held

training and perhaps eventually creating a university

at the Parliament of the Lithuanian government, and it

program. The final day of teaching and learning was spent

featured presentations from Lithuania, Estonia, Poland,

with Deaf and Interpreter representatives responsible for

Latvia, as well as a WASLI keynote address on sign

testing interpreters, exploring models of testing, and the

language interpreters and human rights. The week ended

kinds of components necessary for valid tests. We also held

with a seminar on the cognitive processes needed for

a meeting with members of the Deaf community and the

meaning based interpreting, which was attended by more

Jordanian Sign Language Interpreters Association with

than 75 interpreters from the region. Our thanks to Ramune

His Royal Highness Prince Mired Bin Raad, where we

Leonavicience, President of the Lithuanian Association of

were able to support the aims of the Deaf representatives in

Sign Language Interpreters (LASLI) and Arunas

seeking greater access to well trained interpreters and the

Brazasinska for their incredible leadership in Lithuania in

need for sign language documentation led by Deaf people

advancing interpreting.

in Jordan. Our sincere thanks to Majdi Yaghi for his incredible energy and support of interpreters and Deaf

It was a privilege to work and learn in both countries, and

community reps, and Kasper Bergman from Denmark for

we look forward to seeing representatives from Lithuania and Jordan in Paris!

WASLI 2019 UPDATE

REPORT

Michelle Ashley – Conference Chairperson The organizing for WASLI Paris 2019 is in full steam with a record number of delegates so far (with three months still to go). As of writing this update there are 120 registrants for the Pre-Conference workshops and 358 delegates attending the Conference. Of these 344, 24% are from emerging countries. People are coming from all across the world‌.

Uganda-USA-Uruguay WASLI recently announced the successful recipients of the Emerging Countries bursary. The delegates are from Pakistan, Fiji and Morocco. Once we have raised enough funds to cover their accommodation and registration, we would like to offer the same opportunity to the next shortlisted bursary recipients who are

Argentina-Australia-Austria-Belgium-

from Papua New Guinea and Colombia.

Bolivia-Botswana-Brazil-Canada-

There are still more funds to raise to

Colombia-Costa Rica-Denmark-

support their attendance. If you would

England-Fiji-Finland-France-Germany-

like to contribute, please donate here:

Haiti-India-Iran-Ireland-Japan-Jordan-

https://wasliparis2019.com/support-

Kenya-Kosovo-Latvia-Lithuania-

3/emerging-country-delegates/

Macau-Malawi-Malaysia-MoroccoNepal-New Zealand-Nigeria-NorwayPakistan-Peru-Philippines-PortugalPuerto Rico-Russia-Saudi ArabiaScotland-Serbia-Singapore-SpainSweden-Taiwan-The Netherlands-

Keep an eye out for WASLI e-news, Facebook and Twitter for regular updates about #wasliparis2019.

We hope our

next update will include details of the social events surrounding the conference.

WASLI's first office manager Meet Irene Strasly who will work for WASLI from Geneva As of March 2019 Irene will act as the WASLI resident

translation and began working at the Faculty, where she has

manager for a couple of hours a week. She will run our to be

worked as a teaching assistant and researcher since then. In

established office in Geneva (Switzerland). Irene Strasly

this context, Irene coordinates and collaborates on various

has Italian origins but moved to Switzerland in 2007 to

projects related to sign language and

study translation at the Faculty of Translation

accessibility. She is actively involved in the

and Interpreting (FTI) in Geneva.

development of a Swiss Centre for Barrier-

In 2010, Irene started learning French Sign Language (LSF) and Swiss-French Sign Language (LSF-CH). She travelled between Paris, Geneva and Lausanne to deepen her

Free Communication. Lately, she has spent a semester in Canada to work with colleagues on Quebec Sign Language (LSQ).

knowledge of the two languages until 2013.

In addition to her work at the university,

In 2015, after a year of study of Italian Sign

Irene is developing her activity as a writer

Language (LIS), she obtained a certificate as an Italian Sign

and sound therapist. In this context, she organizes creative

Language Interpreter.

In 2013 she obtained a Master's degree in specialized

writing workshops to help people develop their inner self through free writing.

CRHISTOPHER TESTER

INTERVIEW

International Sign interpreter in the United Nations Organization E-mail: president@cit-asl.org

Liz: Hi my name is Liz Mendoza, the North American representative for WASLI. I'm here with Chris Tester, an IS interpreter for the United Nations, and will be asking him a few questions here at the CIT conference. First, how did you get involved with international sign?

Chris: My first exposure to IS was around the year 2005, or 2006, during the Gay Games. I was already interpreting at that point and knew BSL, so I decided to get more training.

Bill Moody went with me to trainings and workshops so that I could get fluent in IS, which guided my path here in the US. I went to the Gay Games in Denmark where again I volunteered and immersed myself into International Sign. While I lived in New York City, I also did a lot of international travel, which helped me become fluent.

Liz: Now you are a accredited IS interpreter for the United Nations, right?

Would you explain the accreditation process?

Chris: Yes, I became accredited through WASLI and WFD about two or three years ago. Part of that process was documenting hours of experience and training. Then I had to look at my work as I gathered experience. I didn't have to document every single job, but it really allowed me to see my overall work.

Again, I really have to thank Bill Moody for mentoring me and working with me. Every year there is one week where the UN focuses on people with disabilities and disability rights, called the Convention on the Right of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), where there is a high demand for IS interpreters. I got the opportunity to start observing, training, and interpreting a little bit during that one week in the UN. Of course, it is only one week out of the entire year, so there isn't a lot of opportunity the rest of the year. I then got the opportunity to enroll in the European Masters of Sign Language Interpreting (EUMASLI) in Europe, so I would fly back and forth from the US to Europe and be able to learn through IS, and not just produce IS. It was the first time that I could learn, interact and communicate

through International Sign. That was key for my foundational skills. So that experience, as well as conferences, including CIT where IS is used, allowed me to accrue enough hours to apply, along with letters of recommendation to allow me to stand for the exam where I earned the IS interpreter credential. It was very exciting.

Liz: Yes, that is exciting! You mentioned Bill Moody and other interpreters working in the UN. Would you mind explaining that process? How did that work?

Chris: I enjoyed that process because Bill and I worked as the IS team where we switched every 30 minutes or so. We worked with another team who worked between English and ASL, then we interpreted between ASL and International Sign. We worked approximately a half a day every day for the week. There were other Deaf interpreters involved during that week, too. We made a concerted effort to not have the IS translation look more like ASL, but more like International Sign. We also made sure that we were using the appropriate country signs that are used in the respective countries. We did a lot of research to make sure it was exact. Bill has worked for 30-40 years and was an expert in the area, but I was still new. I feel more comfortable now after 6-8 years of working as an IS interpreter. In the beginning, I was unfamiliar with the system structure and the acronyms of different organizations in the UN that were used.

Liz: It's nice to have a good mentor that can help you and guide you.

Chris: Not only my mentor, but my colleague and team in one.

Liz: Hold on let me look at my questions. Oh! Now that more and more people are aware of IS interpreting, such as CIT where there is a team of Deaf interpreters using IS. That is the first time I have seen CIT doing that.

Chris: Actually, it was the last conference in Portland two years ago where I was involved, but not this conference.

Liz: Oh, I missed the last conference. For people all over the world, where does one get training? Where does one find out more about International Sign?

Chris: In the US it is more difficult. There is strong ASL usage because there is less language variation so one language is used. In Europe, the countries are in close proximity to each other, which allows people to travel and be exposed to various languages. When Deaf people travel to other countries, they have to adjust their language in order to communicate. That is, if they travel. It is a natural process for Deaf people to navigate the world and adjust their language to communicate. Europeans will know more than one language by virtue of the countries' proximity to each other. That is one of the keys for learning IS, however, only knowing ASL and trying to make the jump to IS is not always successful.

Liz: That's right, one must travel outside of the US. Chris: Maybe you should learn LSF (French Sign Language), Hong Kong Sign Language, JSL (Japanese Sign Language), etc. Knowing 3-4 different signed languages, allows you to draw from a variety of choices.

Sometimes you need to sign a more visual representation, and other times a translation that relies more heavily on the sign language of that particular country.

Liz: Attending international conferences such as WASLI, WFD, are opportune learning experiences.

Chris: Definitely participating in more international events and meeting people of different countries. If you present at a WASLI conference, you have to present in IS, or if you don't sign, then spoken English. So that is a good place to practice using IS, not interpreting. There are other conferences, such as TISLR, Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research used to present in IS, then stopped.

They are now presenting in IS again because they have an international audience who communicates in IS. The conference presenters present in their native language, so there is quite a variety of languages included. Most of the situations using IS are either academic or sports-related.

European elections 2019 in 31 sign languages Font: EUD

For the first time ever EUD worked together with the European Parliament to produce a campaign video on the European elections 2019 in 31 sign languages!

We are particularly excited as this is the first time in history when the video content produced by the European Parliament will be available in the mother tongue languages of many deaf Europeans – 31 sign languages. The videos will inform deaf voters about the European elections in an accessible way.

Accessibility of information and communication is the key to ensure an effective and meaningful political participation of deaf voters.

EUD sees this initiative as an excellent opportunity to reach out to all Europeans during the elections and highlights that ensuring accessibility is an opportunity, not a burden. Therefore, we call upon the candidates for the European Parliament and all relevant national authorities to empower deaf voters to meaningfully exercise their right to vote by removing significant obstacles when accessing information and communication during the European elections and make all information and communication available in national sign languages.

EUD hopes to collaborate with the European Parliament in the future making more and more accessible content for deaf Europeans.

Liz: Well, thank you for your time. I really appreciate it!

You can access American Sign Language version on the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WKtUAzJkBc

More informations you can access the link below: h t t p s : / / w w w. e u d . e u / e u r o p e a n - e l e c t i o n s 2019/election-movie

NEWS Countries which will be considered to host the XIX World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf Source: WFD

The World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) Board is very excited to announce the countries which have met the bid requirements necessary to host the XIX World Congress of the WFD in 2023.

At the recent WFD Board Meeting in Paraguay, the WFD reviewed bid proposals from countries wanting to host the XIX World Congress of the WFD in 2023. Each proposal was reviewed based on the criteria outlined in the official bid process.

It is WFD's great pleasure to announce the FOUR countries which have been successful in their bid to host the XIX World Congress of the WFD. It is important to note that no country has yet been selected to host the XIX World Congress of the WFD. The delegates of WFD Ordinary Members at the next WFD General Assembly in Paris in July 2019 will vote to confirm which

country will host the XIX World Congress of the WFD. The WFD Board has appointed four members to the Site Inspection Team who will travel to each of the countries which have submitted successful bids. As part of the evaluation process, a summary report will be prepared for WFD Ordinary Members which will consider the location and capacity of each of the four countries to organise the WFD Congress and WFDYS Youth Camp.

Finally, we are happy to announce that the countries which have submitted successful bids are: - Greece - New Zealand - Rwanda - Republic of Korea The WASLI Board congratulates each of these countries and wishes them all the best during the evaluation process.

WFD announces Sub-themes of the International Week of the Deaf and International Day of Sign Languages Source: WFD

In December 2018, the WFD Board adopted and announced the theme Sign Language Rights for All! for the 2019 International Week of the Deaf which includes the International Day of Sign Languages. The WFD Board has decided to create a sub-theme for each day of the week from Monday, 23 September to Sunday, 29 September. The first day of the week, Monday, 23 September 2019, is an important day as it is International Day of Sign Languages and so therefore will have the main theme “Sign Language Rights for All!�. The dates and corresponding themes are as follows: - Monday, 23 September Sign Language Rights for All! - Tuesday, 24 September Sign Language Rights for All Children - Wednesday, 25 September Sign Language Rights for Deaf Senior Citizens - Thursday, 26 September Sign Language Rights for Deafblind people

- Friday, 27 September Sign Language Rights for Deaf Women - Saturday, 28 September Sign Language Rights for Deaf LGBTIQA+ - Sunday, 29 September Sign Language Rights for Deaf Refugees On 19 December 2017, the UN General Assembly declared 23 September as International Day of Sign Languages (IDSL). The resolution was proposed through the Permanent Mission of Antigua and Barbuda to the UN, following an original request by the WFD. 97 UN Member States voted for adoption of the resolution as co-sponsors.

The choice of 23 September commemorates the date the WFD was established in 1951.The objective of the IDSL is to raise awareness on sign languages and strengthen the status about sign languages. IDSL takes place on the last full week of September as part of the International Week of the Deaf.

EVENTS AUSTRALIA CIUTI Conference 2019 Melborne 3 - 5 June 2019 Web Site: https://arts.monash.edu/translationand-interpretingstudies/CIUTI2019/home AUSTRIA eTransFair Conference 2019 Vienne 11 - 12 July 2019 Web Site: https://etransfair.eu/marketandtrainin g2019 CANADA International Conference on Sign Language and Acquisition Toronto 17 - 18 June 2019 https://waset.org/conference/2019/0 6/toronto/icsl FRANCE Conference CODA 2019 Paris 11 - 14 July 2019 Website: https://codafrance.org/conference-coda-2019

WASLI Conference Paris 17 - 20 July, 2019 Website: www.wasli.org XVIII World Congress of WFD Paris 23 - 27 July, 2019 Website: www.paris-wfd2019.org GERMANY TISLR13 - Conference of Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Hamburg 26 - 28 September 2019 Website: https://www.idgs.unihamburg.de/en/tislr2019.htm ICELAND 9th International Deaf Academics and Researchers Conference Reykjavik 11 - 13 May 2019 Website: https://www.dac2019.com JAPAN Critical Link Conference CLI19 Tokyo 14 - 16 June 2019 https://criticallink.org SWEDEN 8th Media for All International

Conference Stockholm 17 - 19 June 2019 https://www.tolk.su.se/english/media -for-all-8 EUMASLI III - Presentation of Master Research Malmö 3 September 2019 Web Site: http://www.eumasli.eu EFSLI AGM & Conference Malmö 7 - 8 September 2019 http://efsli.org/2019/ POLAND Lesico 4 Conference Warsaw 21 - 23 August, 2019 Web Site: http://lesico2020.eul THAILAND 4th International Conference of the World Federation of the Deaf 2021 USA Deaf Refugee Conference Rochester 20 - 23 June 2019 www.reachoutdra.org

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WASLI EXECUTIVE BOARD Officers: Deb Russell (President); José Ednilson Souza Junior (Vice President); Isabelle Heyerick (Secretary); Susan Emerson (Treasurer) Regional Representatives: Angela Murray(Oceania); Natasha Maliko (Africa); Etsuko Umemoto (Asia); Desanka Zizic (Balkans); Isabel Rey (Latin America and Caribbean); Liz Mendoza (North America); Igor Bondarenko & Anna Komarova (Transcaucasia & Central Asia); Christopher Stone (Europe); Held AlShowaier (Arab Region Contact Person).

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