TerpTopics: PRACTICE: ASL; Sign language; Interpreting; Receptive; Expressive; Fingerspelling; and so on.
 

"TerpTopics(TM)" "Interpreter Topics Rendered Faithfully (TM)"

Original, relevant, and timely content of interest to ASL and sign language interpreting students and practitioners, including introductory information about deafness and American Deaf Culture.

Topics

WELCOME

 + About Us
 + BLOG
 + Contact Us
 + Jobs  DAILY!
 + Subscribe Pink Star

LEGAL

 + Cite this Site
 + Copyright
 + Marks
 + Privacy
 + Terms of Use

INTERPRETING

 + Anecdotes
 + Bi-Cultural Mediation
 + Cloze Skill
 + Compression
 + Demand Control Pink Star
 + Development
 + Dictionaries Pink Star
 + Dynamic Equivalence
 + Education
 + Employment
 + Ethics
 + Expansion
 + FAQ
 + Fingerspelling
 + Glossary
 + Health
 + History
 + How to Become
 + Humor
 + Laws
 + Mentoring
 + Models:
     - Processing
     - Service
 + Practice Pink Star
 + Qualified?
 + Settings
 + Sign Negotiation
 + Silent Socials
 + Technology
 + Tips
 + Vocabulary 

ASK A TERP

 + ASL Students Ask
 + Children Ask
 + CoWorkers Ask
 + Deaf Ask
 + Employers Ask
 + HH Ask
 + Hearing Ask
 + Law Enforcement Asks
 + Neighbors Ask
 + New Terps Ask
 + Parents Ask
 + Relatives Ask
 + Schoolmates Ask
 + Store Clerks Ask
 + Teachers Ask Pink Star
 + Who'd We Miss?

LANGUAGE

 + Linguistics
    - Codes
    - Form & Function
    - Meaning
    - Mode
    - Pidgin
    - Prosody
    - Vocabulary Pink Star
 + ASL
    - Alphabet
    - Classifiers  
    - Dictionaries Pink Star
    - Fingerspelling
    - Grammar
    - History
    - Idioms
    - Practice
    - Variation
    - Visualization
 + English
    - Grammar
    - Idioms

DEAFNESS

 + Causes
 + Community
 + Culture
 + Education
 + Laws
 + Technology

MORE

 + Agency Finder
 + Books
 + DictionariesPink Star
 + Educators
 + Feeds
 + Glossary Pink Star
 + Humor  
 + Jobs
 + Links
 + Movies
 + News  Pink Star
 + Quotes
 + Shop
 + Subscribe
 + Videos & DVDs
 + Worship 

TRANSLATE THIS PAGE

  | Bookmark This Page

Looking for practice and preparation ideas, tips, and resources?  Welcome to the PRACTICE launch page!

As a professional development tool, practice is power-packed.  Some of us worry and fret over not making satisfying professional progress and forget that practice makes perfect.  Novice and seasoned professionals benefit from practice.

Opportunities for practice are only as limited as your imagination; here are a few:

make a video of yourself, then watch it
make a video of yourself, then ask someone else to interpret it
visit a local deaf club (start here), silent social, or silent supper 
interpret VLogs (see our list here)
increase speed by interpreting TV network evening news (160-175 wpm)
mentally interpret what you hear on the radio

To view the TerpTopics PRACTICE page devoted to a specific skill, please select from the following list:

Fun gift for your favorite terp (maybe that's you!).
Receptive
Expressive
    Teaming
    (coming soon)
      Idioms   
    (coming soon)
Fingerspelling
    Prosody
    (coming soon)
Vocabulary
Planning
    Response
    (coming soon)

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

..

.

.

.

This page was edited: 09/15/2009
This page has been visited Hit Counter times since: July 12, 2009.
TerpTopics is a trademark and service mark of TerpTopics, LLC. © 2009. All rights reserved.
TerpTopics™ is an independent entity; as such does not claim or attempt to claim, represent, or imply by any means whatsoever that it is associated with any other entity that may or may not offer services, goods, or information of interest to interpreter, Deaf, or student communities.  The opinions expressed here those of TerpTopics unless otherwise stated.  Please keep in mind that, while every effort is made to present correct, appropriate, and reasonable information that is based on our experience, anecdotal experiences of others, or developed during the general course of study and professional development, we do not represent TerpTopics as having cornered the market on wisdom (heck, no!) or experience; one reason why links to several other good and reliable resources are made available throughout this site, and we hope that earnest seekers of knowledge will take advantage of them.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Gifts, goodies, and prezzies! Shop 'til you drop!! =)

Did someone say
self-indulgence?
YUP!
Click here now!
;)
.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

 

Books, books, and MORE books!

So many books;
so little time ...
Why waste it?
Click here now.

.

.

.

.

 

Movies, movies, and MORE movies!!

Discover films of interest to ASL or interpreting students here.