Missouri Interpreter’s
Mini-Conference
The Missouri Interpreter’s Mini-Conference will be held September 30, 2023 at the Stoney Creek Hotel & Conference in Columbia, Missouri.
MCDHH is excited to announce six different workshops that are available with four remarkable out of state presenters: Vicky Floyd, Dan Hoffman, Sharon Lott and Sandy Scott.
To register, please use the Registration Form below. Deadline to register is September 29, 2023.
If interested in an exhibit booth or becoming a sponsor, please use the form below.
To reserve your room at Stoney Creek Hotel, use the code “MICS2023” to get the conference’s block rate of $93 per night.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
Relying on research and paradigms from several well-known authors, the workshop is designed to provide individuals with the opportunity to re-evaluate themselves as individuals and members of the Deaf community. The presentation will focus on self-advocacy and how to advocate for others through understanding a variety of communication styles and preferences. The workshop will offer practice communicating through different strategies and perspectives, addressing critical conversations and high-stake situations that when handled effectively, will leave the workshop with newly acquired ideas and skills that will enable them to continue building trust and resilient collaboration.
Deaf interpreting is still not commonly used in some parts of North America. This workshop is to serve as an introduction to the long history of language brokering among Deaf individuals, as well as provide a basis for which to build upon regarding situations in which a Deaf interpreter would be warranted. Hearing interpreters are often in a position to identify situations in which a Deaf interpreter may be requested. When this happens interpreters will know what to say to their consumers and how to properly educate their consumer about the need to hire a Deaf interpreter. In addition, the participants will be able to define Deaf Interpreting, to describe the history of Deaf Interpreting, to list several benefits of using Deaf Interpreters, and to utilize team strategies. Lastly, the participants will be participating in the group activities.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop participants will be better able to:
The workshop will discuss how head movements and their vital grammatical and discourse function in American Sign Language. Head movements are critical features in ASL and they need to be emphasized in the classes. Head movements are alike using patterns of rhythms, stress, and intonation in a language. They are analogous to the use of punctuation, such as commas, semicolons, and spaces between sentences and paragraphs.
This workshop will focus on the four areas of cultural mediation, interpretation, oppression and allyship in the Black and Brown Deaf and Deaf communities. Participants will have the opportunity to analyze their privileges and discuss how their privileges can be used to empower Black and Brown Deaf and Deaf people in healthy and positive ways. Group discussions will facilitate reevaluation of the hearing person’s role in the Black and Brown Deaf and Deaf community. Brainstorming will be used as a strategic approach to help improve the privileged person’s understanding of what is needed as a partner when advocating with the Black and Brown Deaf and Deaf communities. Various scenarios and videos will be shown, giving the audience members the opportunity to expand their understanding of how they can contribute to the developmental process, by becoming an ally. We strive to give all workshop attendees the inspiration and tools needed to become an exceptional ally for the Black and Brown Deaf and Deaf communities. Through introspection each workshop attendee should become aware of why they have a responsibility to serve as an ally to the Black and Brown Deaf and Deaf communities.
Deaf interpreting is still not commonly used in some parts of North America. This workshop is to serve as an introduction to the long history of language brokering among Deaf individuals, as well as provide a basis for which to build upon regarding situations in which a Deaf interpreter would be warranted. Hearing interpreters are often in a position to identify situations in which a Deaf interpreter may be requested. When this happens interpreters will know what to say to their consumers and how to properly educate their consumer about the need to hire a Deaf interpreter. In addition, the participants will be able to define Deaf Interpreting, to describe the history of Deaf Interpreting, to list several benefits of using Deaf Interpreters, and to utilize team strategies. Lastly, the participants will be participating in the group activities.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop participants will be better able to:
The participates will develop knowledge in Sign Movement modification for size, degree, manner, and temporal aspect/time. It includes the aspect concerns form that are verbs and adjectives both. The participates will develop skill how to give information about frequency and/or duration of an action. They will develop knowledge and skill if how to use various facial expression and sign movement modification. The participates will applied what they have learn by various activities and develop their skills in sign movement modification/temporal aspect.
PRESENTERS
Vicki Floyd
Victoria Floyd is a veteran Pre-K-12 teacher with 26 years of experience teaching children of all ages. She is currently teaching at Utah State University where she is contributing to the development of a new online undergraduate teacher prep program. She is also RID certified and works as a freelance interpreter. When Vicky is not at work, she loves spending time at home with her family cooking, playing games, or watching movies. Her favorite personal hobbies include ballet, tango, and Zumba.
Dan Hoffman
Dr. Dan Hoffman has used American Sign Language all his life. He has been bestowed a unique educational background. He attended various school settings, first oral communication, then total communication in Dayton, Ohio, and finally graduating from Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind where ASL was mainly used.
After 14 years working for the United States Postal Service, he decided to change his direction because of his passion for teaching. This led to obtaining his bachelor’s degree in communication studies from Gallaudet University. He also earned a master’s and Doctorate’s in Deaf Studies/Deaf Education at Lamar University.
He had taught ASL/Deaf Studies for over 15 years in the higher education field and had given presentations at the conferences and workshops. Currently, is the Assistant Director & Senior Lecturer at the University of New Hampshire in Manchester, New Hampshire. He is a scholar, advocator, and Deaf Interpreter. He resides between Knoxville, Tennessee, and New Hampshire.
Sharon Lott
Sharon Lott, M.S., M.A, ASLTA certification: Professional, SLPI: Superior Plus, retired from ASL Training and Evaluation Coordinator at NTID/RIT. She is a National SLPI: ASL Trainer for rater and trainer for the SLPI with experience in providing training as far as Ghana and Kenya, Africa. Locally she has taught at Central Piedmont Community College, Lenior-Rhyne College, Western Piedmont Community College, Gardner Webb University and Appalachian University, Eastern Kentucky University. She was a Staff Development specialist at North Carolina School for the Deaf (NCSD) and Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf (ENCSD). She coordinated and teaches ASL, Deaf Culture, Linguistics and a variety of other sign related topics at both school. She possesses Professional Level ASL certification from the American Sign Language Teacher Association (ASLTA). She continues serving as ASLTA evaluator.
She has 3 children, Leslie, Kristina and James. She’s a proud grandmother to Lathan.
Sandy Scott
Sandy Rae Scott was one of the first people to earn a BA in Deaf Studies from Gallaudet University. She earned a Master’s degree in Deaf Education in Bilingual Settings from McDaniel College. She has taught at Utah Schools for the Deaf, Ogden Campus, for seven years as an ASL/English Specialist and for two years as an Elementary Teacher. Prior to her relocation to Utah, Sandy taught at three residential schools of the Deaf in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, and Alabama and at a public high school in Seattle, Washington. Sandy has served as an ASL instructor at the University of Virginia, Seattle Central Community College and Gallaudet University. In addition to her teaching job, she recently dedicated her two years as a Curriculum Coordinator at the Heritage Sign Languages Center under Chief of Bilingual Office at Gallaudet University. Sandy has been passionately contributing bilingual lessons to the ASL/English Enrichment page on Facebook which she implemented in 2014 and 2017. She has also been voluntarily teaching English for three years to a group of Deaf adults who desire to improve their writing and reading skills. She has provided numerous workshops related to ASL linguistics, unity in the Deaf community and allyship to teachers, interpreters, parents and members of the BIPOC Deaf community. Sandy’s 26 years of extensive professional and personal experience in a variety of diverse educational settings have provided her with a platform from which to develop synergistic relationships that strengthen and elevate the BIPOC Deaf community.