Sign language interpreting services

Meulder, Maartje De; Haualand, Hilde

doi:10.1075/tis.18008.dem

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“…By contrast, most deaf practitioners are located in London. Given the shift to remote working reported by UK respondents to this census, and from SLTI practitioners in other international locations since the pandemic (De Meulder et al, 2021), geographical location may be less of an issue if the “new normal” for post-pandemic SLTI provision involves a hybrid of face-to-face interactions and online work.…”

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Representation and diversity in the sign language translation and interpreting profession in the United Kingdom

Napier¹,

Skinner²,

Adam

et al. 2022

Interpreting and Society

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This article reports the findings of a nationwide sign language translator and interpreter (SLTI) census to establish a baseline description of the United Kingdom’s SLTI workforce that was commissioned by the Association of Sign Language Interpreters UK. Complete responses were received from 690 practitioners from across the United Kingdom (43% of the potential sample). The survey responses were analysed using the SPSS statistical software, specifically to look at various intersectional characteristics concerning gender, age, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. This article provides an overview of the findings with respect to two key themes: representation and diversity in the profession, along with discussion of the profile of the SLTI profession in the United Kingdom, and recommendations for actions for key stakeholder organisations. As a first snapshot, this census functions as a baseline for future comparisons, and can be modified and improved through open dialogue with professional and community groups. This snapshot helps us to identify gaps in representation. Finally, it can also inform the planning and forecasting of recruitment needs for the workforce and highlight any education and training needs.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Representation and diversity in the sign language translation and interpreting profession in the United Kingdom

Napier¹,

Skinner²,

Adam

et al. 2022

Interpreting and Society

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“…HCPs themselves should be prepared to provide the best care for their deaf-signing patients by understanding Deaf culture and considering the provision of direct language-concordant services. 37…”

Section: Sign Language Interpreter-mediated Health Carementioning

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Health Care Needs of Deaf Signers: The Case for Culturally Competent Health Care Providers

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There is a need for culturally competent health care providers (HCPs) to provide care to deaf signers, who are members of a linguistic and cultural minority group. Many deaf signers have lower health literacy levels due to deprivation of incidental learning opportunities and inaccessibility of health-related materials, increasing their risk for poorer health outcomes. Communication barriers arise because HCPs are ill-prepared to serve this population, with deaf signers reporting poor-quality interactions. This has translated to errors in diagnosis, patient nonadherence, and ineffective health information, resulting in mistrust of the health care system and reluctance to seek treatment. Sign language interpreters have often not received in-depth medical training, compounding the dynamic process of medical interpreting. HCPs should thus become more culturally competent, empowering them to provide cultural- and language-concordant services to deaf signers. HCPs who received training in cultural competency showed increased knowledge and confidence in interacting with deaf signers. Similarly, deaf signers reported more positive experiences when interacting with medically certified interpreters, HCPs with sign language skills, and practitioners who made an effort to improve communication. However, cultural competency programs within health care education remain inconsistent. Caring for deaf signers requires complex, integrated competencies that need explicit attention and practice repeatedly in realistic, authentic learning tasks ordered from simple to complex. Attention to the needs of deaf signers can start early in the curriculum, using examples of deaf signers in lectures and case discussions, followed by explicit discussions of Deaf cultural norms and the potential risks of low written and spoken language literacy. Students can subsequently engage in role plays with each other or representatives of the local signing deaf community. This would likely ensure that future HCPs are equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to provide appropriate care and ensure equitable health care access for deaf signers.

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“…In mediated communication, there is a perceived absence of intersubjectivity between deaf and hearing individuals, and the presence of interpreters as a symbol of the deaf person’s access can paradoxically work to reinforce, rather than dismantle inequalities (Young et al, 2019). For this reason, the preamble posted in Facebook may well serve as a reminder that sign language interpreters “do not solve communication problems in any absolute sense” (De Meulder & Haualand, 2019; Young et al, 2019, p. 106).…”

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Writing as Being: On the Existential Primacy of Writing for a Deaf Scholar

Snoddon

2022

Qualitative Inquiry

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This article employs analytic autoethnography to study online events and social media that I participated in as a deaf scholar during the COVID-19 pandemic. With reference to Derrida’s philosophy of deconstruction, this article asserts the existential primacy of writing as a critical subject of inquiry for confronting normative language ideologies about what language is and how and where language is produced, received, understood, and performed.

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Sign language interpreting services

Cited by 35 publications

References 65 publications

Representation and diversity in the sign language translation and interpreting profession in the United Kingdom

Representation and diversity in the sign language translation and interpreting profession in the United Kingdom

Health Care Needs of Deaf Signers: The Case for Culturally Competent Health Care Providers

Writing as Being: On the Existential Primacy of Writing for a Deaf Scholar

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