Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors

News Article: Deaf academics say a lack of ASL interpreters specialized in STEM is holding them back

Project Description:

This research explores the experience of navigating relational work in interpreter-mediated non-emergency healthcare consultations. Using the lived-experience of six healthcare sign language interpreters, this research reveals interpreter-mediated healthcare consultations as a site of significant and shifting complexity. For those interviewed, adaptation and sensitivity to the physical, social, and larger cultural factors at play within a healthcare consultation were essential to effectively navigating relational-interactive work. Drawing on systems theory and complex systems theory, and guided by post-intentional phenomenology, this research highlights the interconnected and entangled nature of healthcare interpreting. Ultimately, this research emphasizes that effective navigation of interpreter-mediated healthcare appointments involves an ongoing co-learning and co-navigating process navigated between people, and the need to address it as such.

Authors:
Jason Vermes (Journalist)
Host organization/institution:
University of British Columbia, Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program
Funding:
Not at this time (funding)
Contact:
Bryan Hemingway, Bryan.C.Hemingway@gmail.com
Project Keywords:
Access and Inclusion, Interpreter services, Post-secondary