It’s been brilliant to see how Rose Ayling-Ellis has promoted British Sign Language during her appearances on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, with her partner, Giovanni Pernice being a willing student. Judges, presenters and fellow dancers have used some signs they have been picking up along the way too. It’s great too see hearing people making […]
Written by Lynx – PGDip, DipSLI, BA I came to the complex, challenging, eye-opening and immensely satisfying world of the Deaf community and New Zealand Sign Language interpreting almost twenty-five years ago. I was very close to finishing a law degree, supporting myself through that by working as a driving instructor. This included teaching […]
We live in an era where it’s never been easier to upload content to the internet – photos, selfies, comments and videos. Meetings and webinars can be live captioned with some video conferencing software – automated and manually with a Speech To Text Reporter. Speaking of auto generated subtitles, are you still frustrated with some […]
Members of the Linguistpd community recently met to focus on how we can take care of ourselves whist providing for the needs of our clients, many of whom are vulnerable and experiencing challenging situations. Using experiential learning (psychodrama) Wendy McIntosh explored a number of themes including professional boundaries, transference/counter-transference, vicarious trauma, stress and the limbic […]
We’re hugely excited and proud to announce that our first subtitled course has now been launched! As you probably know, we have always been extremely keen to make our training accessible for Deaf Professionals, so that both deaf and hearing can learn together. Last month we announced that we would have upcoming online training available with […]
Here at Linguistpd, we are passionate about making our training accessible for Deaf Professionals, and we’ve been working to do so for a while now. So without further ado, we are very excited to announce that we have an upcoming online course with subtitles, so Deaf and Hearing Professionals can learn together! We’d like to invite you to check […]
One of the things we really appreciate is hearing from you- our customers! We love getting any feedback- whether it’s telling us what you’ve enjoyed, giving us suggestions, or letting us know what we could improve. Our aim is to provide the training that you want- so we would love to hear from you! Are […]
The philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein said: ‘The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”…. To celebrate Linguistpd widening its training to both spoken and sign language interpreters, our next webinar will focus on how to enhance your English language skills. As interpreters in training, we spend many years honing our second or sign language skills – and rightly […]