Dr McIntosh returns to continue the work started in her previous session:

Identifying and Appreciating the Vulnerable Self – Building Buffers for Self Care

During this session attendees will dive deeper into strategies and buffers to address feelings of vulnerability which arise for professionals.

“Let’s buffer up!”

Learn about the different types of therapy used, begin to assess your suitability for this domain and look at some of the practicalities of interpreting in psychotherapy.

Learning Outcomes:

• An opportunity for personal reflection on our readiness for working in counselling and psychotherapy.
• An understanding of different modalities including – CBT, Humanistic and Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic
• An awareness of how to prepare to interpret a therapy session
• Knowledge of the practicalities of interpreting in counselling and psychotherapy.

Structured CPD points: 2

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Supporting sign language users in an English language class presents unique challenges. Until recently, there has been a lack of collated signs for terms that are likely to crop up in an English language class such as tenses, idioms, adjectives and phrasal verbs.

In this webinar Russell Aldersson shares important research undertaken with teachers of English to sign language users (and some interpreters & CSWs), examining the role of British Sign Language in the teaching of English to Deaf adult learners. You will also benefit from your colleagues’ suggestions made during the webinar’s practical exercises. 

Supporting sign language users in an English language class presents unique challenges. Until recently, there has been a lack of collated signs for terms that are likely to crop up in an English language class such as tenses, idioms, adjectives and phrasal verbs.

In this webinar Russell Aldersson shares important research undertaken with teachers of English to sign language users (and some interpreters & CSWs), examining the role of British Sign Language in the teaching of English to Deaf adult learners. You will also benefit from your colleagues’ suggestions made during the webinar’s practical exercises. 

We had a really inspiring presentation and discussion lead by Marilyn Henderson, who shared insights into her work with Deaf children. She discusses challenges faced in primary mainstream education, working with Deaf Teaching Assistants & ToDs, adapting resources for Deaf children and what we can do to improve outcomes for Deaf children!

Structured CPD points: 2

Looking to improve your voiceover or just curious to know more about international sign? In this webinar you’ll learn how International Sign can assist your day-to-day voice over (sign language to English/spoken language) skills.

Brett shares several strategies utilised by interpreters as they took a highly visual piece of communication in International Sign, and interpreted the message into spoken English. This research is applicable and will be of interest to interpreters of national sign languages, such as BSL/English interpreters, and ASL/English interpreters because all of the strategies identified are techniques that many sign language interpreters do or could use in their everyday work.

So you get booked to interpret within an Occupational Therapy (OT) session. What is expected of you? What are the challenges? What is OT?!

OT sessions can be fun, practical and interesting sessions to be a part of but it is important to understand the rationale behind the profession and what the therapist needs from you. Although Jane works in the mental health domain, this webinar provides invaluable learning for working with OTs in the physical health domain. 

Drawing upon the theory of Transactional Analysis, this webinar is an opportunity to increase your capacity for self-reflection.  To help you reflect upon those moments when you leave an interpreting assignDrawing upon the theory of Transactional Analysis, this webinar is an opportunity to increase your capacity for self-reflection.  To help you reflect upon those moments when you leave an interpreting assignment and you just don’t know what went wrong.

Jill will explain what psychological Games are, highlight different ways of understanding how Games are played, when we play Games, who we play Games with and what feelings emerge when we play them.

The videos are available with subtitles.