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JUSTISIGNS - VET in Interpreting and Justice
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
REASON FOR PROJECTOn 20 October 2010, the European Parliament and the Council adopted Directive 2010/64/EU on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings. This will compel EU states to ensure that signed language interpreters are adequately trained and that legal professionals are aware of how the relationship of their interaction with Deaf people via an interpreter functio ...
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...the deaf respondent’s comments, the GP did not understand the question presenting serious concerns for misdiagnosis and treatment. MEDISIGNS will transfer a traditionally taught course at the Centre for Deaf Studies called Liaison Interpreting (already accredited), to an online resource called Interpreting in Medical Contexts. At present this is delivered face-to-face to students studying to quali ...
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The course provides an overview on historical, contemporary local and international perspectives on deafness and on being Deaf. It introduces concepts as such as Deafhood (Ladd), the Sign Language Person (Jokinen) and Deaf ethnicity (Lane, Corker), as well as positioning Deaf community responses to challenges from liberal thought, the eugenics movement, as well as modern medical interventions. Del ...
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