Digital conference for sign language interpreters 13 January 2021
Target group
The conference is for those who interpret or want to interpret for people with combined sensory loss/deafblindness. Since the conference is digital, it will be possible for everyone to participate.
The conference will be sign language interpreted.
Link to participate: Interpreting conference 13 January 2021
The conference will be available afterwards on our YouTube channel. There will be information about this after the conference.
Programme*
09:00-09:10: Welcome with practical info by Anine Berg Lindahl and Cathrine Timm Sundin
09:10-09:50: Sign language interpreter/companion 2021; Ingeborg Skaten and Gro Hege Saltnes Urdal (Interpreter programme; Western Norway University of Applied Sciences)
09:50-09:55 Break
09:55-10:30 A haptic status; Hildebjørg Karlsen Bjørge and Inger Lise Vincent (Hapti-co)
10:30-11:00 Service development; Linda Stadshaug and Berit Søgård (Co-ordinating team in the field of interpreting, NAV Assistive Technology and Facilitation Management Unit)
11:00-11:30 Lunch break
11:30-13:00 Sensory prerequisites for haptic communication. About: Speech understanding as an audiovisual phenomenon; Rolf Mjønes (counsellor hearing Eikholt)
Charles Bonnet syndrome; Line Hovland (senior advisor vision Eikholt)
13:00-13:20 Break
13:20-13:55 A close person's perspective on the interpreter; Solfrid Vartdal
13:55-14:00 Breathing break
14:00-15:00 Being exposed to everyday human life; Siri Toven (specialist psychologist and one of the authors of the book: "Caring for Helpers")
15:00-15:30 Summing up
Input or comments during the conference can be sent by email to cathrine.t.sundin@eikholt.no
*Subject to changes in the programme
Organiser: NAV Centre for Assistive Technology and Adaptation in collaboration with Eikholt