This DVD will take every student - from seasoned interpreters to advanced ASL students - to a new level of interpreting. As with our receptive skills interpreter training DVD, every viewer will undergo a number of steps and processes to further develop expressive skills while interpreting. This DVD makes an excellent tool to bolster fundamental abilities that every interpreter needs to work efficiently with Deaf, hard of hearing as well as English-speaking consumers.
Throughout the video, there will be six chapters containing voiced stories and narrations, as follows: the Christmas and related holiday spirits/traditions at Rockefeller Center in New York City, the dramatic deer rescue operation, an heroic helicopter pilot, several stories about food found throughout the Whole Foods store and a challenging yet thought-provoking cooking activity at a televised cooking show.
In every chapter, viewers will first hear a complete story without signing or captions. Immediately following the story, there will be over 50 training questions from four main activities to aid interpreters and ASL students to develop expressive skills:
- Fingerspelling check
- Fact check
- Idiom and phrase check
- Voice-to-sign check
As a bonus, you will learn seven additional commonly used idioms and phrases in American Sign Language. Gilda Ganezer and Avery Posner will present the idioms and then show you how to use them in complete sentences.
An exciting cooking activity will be shown in ASL, as an added bonus for interpreting training along with several visits to holiday-themed New York City stores in ASL and several sign-to-voice bonus featurettes. More blooper reels will be included. [DVD: 100+ minutes; open captioned, audio, voice over, not rated, Region 1]
DVD Chapters:- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Tips
- Chapter 3: Visiting the Rockefeller Center, Part 1
- Chapter 4: Visiting the Rockefeller Center, Part 2
- Chapter 5: Rescue of Fawn
- Chapter 6: Helicopter Hero
- Chapter 7: Whole Foods - grocery store
- Chapter 8: Cook Show
- Chapter 9: Idioms & Phrases #8-14
- Chapter 10: Bloopers
- Chapter 11: Bonus: Cool ASL Recipe
- Chapter 12: Bonus: Visiting Teuscher Chocolates in ASL
- Chapter 13: Bonus: Fawn Rescue & Helicopter Pilot stories in ASL
- Chapter 14: More idiom and ASL interpreter training DVD previews
