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The Mason Perkins Deafness Fund (MPDF) in Siena, Italy, hosted a training in Ethics & Team Interpreting. On 4 & 5 July 2017 Lianne van Dijken & Maya de Wit trained a group of Italian Sign Language Interpreters. The training was a combination of theory and practice through different activities and games. Thank you to the participants and MPDF!
Read MoreDanish Sign Language interpreters were wonderful participants in my trainings in the last week of June. FTT, the Danish Association of Sign Language Interpreters, hosted my two day training 'Interpreting from and to English as a 3rd language - Part I' and CFD, hosted Part II for their interpreters as a follow up from January.
All participants shared their expertise and enhanced their skills in working idioms, synonyms, sentence connectors, strategies and much more! Thank you for your enriching experiences.
Read MoreThank you to all the twenty sign language interpreters for your enthusiastic participation in the training 'Interpreting into and from English as a 3rd language'!
The training took place before the EUD seminar from 16 - 18 May in Malta with 20 participants. Want to know more? Click on the link. For the next training, sign up to the mailing list.
Read MoreAs of 1 April 2017 AIIC welcomes the 3rd sign language interpreter as AIIC member. In addition, there are 6 more sign language interpreters who joined AIIC as a pre-candidate. The AIIC Sign Language Network (AIIC SLN) is very happy to see more sign language interpreters join AIIC! Are you a sign language interpreter working at conferences? You can join AIIC too! Read here the detailed presentation on how to join.
Why you should join AIIC? Read here
Read MoreSign Language Interpreting in Europe, 2016 edition, gives an overview of the organizations, educational programs, and employment situations of sign language interpreters across 45 European countries and regions. This is the fifth updated edition, following publications in 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012. The publication is available at all Amazon stores worldwide
Read MoreOn 23 November the European Parliament passed the resolution on sign languages and professional sign language interpreters. Here you can read the full text of the resolution. The text is available in all 24 EU languages.
Read MoreOn 28 September 2016 for the first time in history there were more interpreters at work in the European Parliament than ever before: a total of 145 interpreters. Of these were 31 sign languages and the 24 official EU spoken languages.
Read MoreA total of 7 members of the AIIC SLN, 3 from Greece, attended the efsli conference and one member of CACL, which is the committee that reviews the AIIC membership applications.
Read MoreMaya de Wit offers interpreting services and consultancy in the field of sign language interpreting.
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