Educational Interpreter Training Grant for VDOE Regions 1,3, & 8
in conjunction with VRID and Reynolds Community College
“My Lips are Moving But What am I Saying???? Analyzing Your English Product”
Presented by Dr Sabrina Smith
Date: August 5, 2025 Time: 12:30 PM – 3:30PM
0.3 RID CEUs Sponsored by VRID (Pending)
Location: Online Format
Workshop/Course Description This workshop is the sister workshop to "What Did I Just Sign: Analyzing Your ASL Product". This time we take a look at our English product. Participants will analyze their own products, after being videotaped, using several variations of rating forms in order to demonstrate knowledge of terminology used in the testing environment. The goal is to improve their ASL to English by understanding the tools used by raters to evaluate their product. The educational objective for this workshop is to teach the participants to be able to identify these areas of weakness and have the proper tools to strengthen these areas. Participants need to bring a device to record themselves, it can be a phone, iPad, or any device that records audio as well as visual.
Educational Objectives: The educational objective for this workshop is to teach the participants to be able to identify areas of weakness in their English product. In doing this they will be able to focus on application to those specific areas and improve on them. They will also learn how to demonstrate understanding of the terminology that comes along with analyzing the English interpreting process and how to apply it to feedback they get from test results.
Evaluation & Assessment: Evaluations will be done through discussion and dialogue with the participants to make sure the participants understand the concepts being presented.
Sabrina Smith, PhD, has been involved in the interpreting field for over 20 years. She is Nationally certified through RID: CI and CT, as well as NIC Master and Ed:K-12. She works as an educational interpreter and has been Interpreting in the school system for over 20 years. She enjoys mentoring interpreters across the United States, no
matter where they are in their journey, encouraging and empowering them to achieve their goals. She works as a freelance interpreter, and as a performing arts interpreter for theatre’s and concert venues in her area. She has presented various workshops across the country. She worked as a video relay interpreter with Sorenson Communications for over 14 years. Feel free to contact her about mentoring, presenting, or just general questions about the field of interpreting at sabrinatempie.wixsite.com/aslterp
Grant participants should contact Susan May susanmayk12@gmail.com for the training code. VRID is an Approved RID CMP Sponsor for Continuing Education Activities. This Professional Studies program is offered for 0.6 CEUs at the Extensive Knowledge Level. If you have questions or require a reasonable accommodation for this event, please contacts Susan May.