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INT-595G Special Topics Credits: 1-3
INT-736 Professional Practice I Credits: 3
INT-749 Professional Practice II Credits: 3
INT-223 Interactive Discourse Analysis Credits: 3
INT-595U Special Topics Credits: 1-3
  • Modeling Visual Language in the Classroom (2024/01)
  • How Accurate Are You? (2024/01)
  • Space Walk: Tracking and Using Depictive Space in ASL (2024/01)
  • What Linguistics has Taught Me as an Interpreter. (2024/01)
  • Rethinking Classifiers (Again): Dividing the Parts and Learning How to Build Them (2024/01)
  • 2016 NAD Outstanding Service to Interpreting Award
  • 2021 Certificate of Appreciation For outstanding service in interpretation.
  • 2016 Outstanding Drama
  • <ul> <li><span style="color:#fd8008;"></span>Iconically Foregrounded and Backgrounded Units in Signed Language Grammars</li> <li><span style="color:#fd8008;"></span></li> </ul>
  • <ul> <li><span style="color:#fd8008;"></span>A Cognitive Grammar View on Depictive Expressions in ASL</li> </ul>
  • <ul> <li><span style="color:#fd8008;"></span>Blockbuster: Cinematic ASL</li> </ul>
  • <ul> <li><span style="color:#fd8008;"></span>You Can’t Beat Talent, Actually Did You Know? </li> </ul>
  • Gallaudet Travel Research Fund- (Gallaudet University )
  • Atlas Rideout-Department of Interpretation and Translation (Honors) 2023/02
  • Bernkrant, Pamela. - Interpreting Studies, Western Oregon University (Masters Committee) 2022/01-2022/01
  • Advisor to CODAdet 2023/02
  • Certification Council Member : Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf 2013/02-2016/01
  • Licensure Committee: Florida Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf 2011/02-2016/01
  • Director of Communications and Technology : Conference of Interpreter Trainers 2012/02-2015/01
  • 50th Anniversary Conference Celebration Committee : Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf 2012/01-2012/03
  • Parliamentarian (later Vice President): Oklahoma RID Chapter 2008/02-2010/01
  • Interpreting Assessment Tool: SLRS 2023/01
  • Pro Bono interpreting services 2004/02
  • 2024 August Professional Development Week: Washington DC, District of Columbia 2024/01-2024/01
  • Complex Language Structure in ASL conversations.: Online 2024/01-2024/01
  • Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf: 2006-Ongoing
  • Conference of Interpreter Trainers: 2010-Ongoing
  • National Black Deaf Advocates : 2012-Ongoing
  • Potomac Chapter of Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf : 2015-Ongoing
  • International Cognitive Linguistics Association: 2015-Ongoing
  • Sign Language Linguistics Society: 2016-Ongoing
  • Mano a Mano : 2017-Ongoing
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