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Congratulations to European Union of the Deaf on this new publication. Honored and delighted to have co-authored with Alexandre Bloxs the article "Mapping Sign Language Peoples: The urgent need for comprehensive data collection in the European Union." You can download the full publication for free.
Read MoreI am pleased to announce the publication of my article on quality standards in signed language interpreting, which has been published in the European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters (efsli) 2024 conference proceedings.
The article, which I originally presented at the efsli 2024 conference in Italy, explores the complex landscape of quality assurance in signed language interpreting across Europe.
Read MoreIn September 2025 Teckentolk in Örebro, Sweden, invited me to provide an onsite training on working from and to English. The sign language interpreters received a training in two groups, each group one day, and then continued their learning with three online sessions in October and November. Thank you Teckentolk and the Swedish Sign Language Interpreters for the kind invite and joint learning!
Read MoreI am delighted to offer another training opportunity in Berlin on 5 & 6 June 2026! Come and join the part I training on interpreting from and to English and your national sign language. During two days you can practice and acquire new knowledge and strategies on working with English.
More information and registration >
Read MoreThe final MITS seminar Professional Advances: Signed Language Interpreting & Translation Studies will be held on 9 & 10 October 2025 in Siena, Italy.
Nineteen professional signed language interpreters from nine European countries, the MITS students, will present and discuss their final research results. Their research in the field of interpreting and translation studies covers a wide variety of topics.
Here is your opportunity to acquire skills and strategies to interpret between your national sign language and English. Training Part I will take place in Berlin on 20 & 21 February 2026. As a sign language interpreter and a non-native English speaker, you are increasingly requested to work into and from English. This two day training will give you hands on practice and knowledge to learn linguistic and coping strategies to match these demands.
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Read MoreMITS is hosting their second online seminar on 22 March from 10.00 - 14.00 CET. The seminar will tackle a pressing and fundamental topic: the rights and risks of signed language translation and Interpretation in the context of the EU legal framework.
Read MoreHere is your opportunity to acquire skills and strategies to interpret between your national sign language and English. Training Part I will take place in Brussels on 11 & 12 April 2025. As a sign language interpreter and a non-native English speaker, you are increasingly requested to work into and from English. This two day training will give you hands on practice and knowledge to learn linguistic and coping strategies to match these demands.
More information and registration >
Read MoreCome and join signed language interpreters from across Europe in Part II of the training ‘Interpreting from and to English as a 3rd language’: 16 & 17 May 2025 in France!
Through intensive practice and the individual and peer feedback, you will enhance your acquired skills to work between English and your national sign language.
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Read MoreDelighted to be presenting at the upcoming AIIC webinar organized by AIIC Training and Professional Development (ATPD) and AIIC’s Sign Language Network (SLN) on 30 November from 14.00 - 16.00 CET. In this free two-hour online information session, you will learn what SLI is all about, why it is important to make it available at meetings, how and where it can be learned and taught, how SLI can be included in mixed teams with spoken language interpreters, and much more.
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Read MoreIt has been a bit of a wait, but the fourth article of my PhD dissertation is now published! ‘International Sign conference interpreters as a Community of Practice’ is published in Meta Journal des traducteurs Translators’ Journalco-authored with Dr. Onno Crasborn and Prof. Jemina Napier. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/meta/2024-v69-n1-meta09627/1113947ar/
Read MoreThe MITS Public Online Seminar, taking place on October 5th from 9:45 to 13:00 CET, will focus on deaf persons in conflict zones and humanitarian crises, with particular emphasis on the role of sign language interpreters in these contexts.
Two deaf experts, Peninnah Vulimu and Herbert Klein, will present their fieldwork experiences.
Read MoreAs announced at the 2024 efsli conference: In 2025 I will conduct another European survey on the development of the signed language interpreter profession. The 2025 research will be done in collaboration with the European Union of the Deaf (EUD) as they are conducting a census that year. You can contribute your wishes for the new 2025 edition. Please fill out this form >
Read MoreI am delighted to present at the efsli conference in Torino, Italy. During my presentation ‘Eternally qualified!?, I will delve into the complexities around the qualification and quality maintenance of signed language interpreters in Europe. I am looking forward to exchanges with many colleagues and friends!
Read MoreThe sign language interpreting program in Innsbruck welcomed their second cohort in 2023. I had the wonderful opportunity to meet and teach this 2nd semester (May 2024) on ‘Team Interpreting’. Thank you to Elisabeth Keckeis, director of the program, for inviting me!
Read MoreA very special moment last Thursday: the students who had been selected for the new postgraduate degree program Multilingual Sign Language Interpreting & Translation Studies (MITS) met for the first time at Mason Perkins Deafness Fund (MPDF) in Siena, Italy.
Read MoreFor the first time the training ‘Interpreting from and to English, Part I’ is coming to Portugal! The training will take place on 1 & 2 July 2024.
Come and join colleagues from around Europe at this popular two day training for signed language interpreters! In this interactive training you will learn new strategies and improve you interpreting skills from and to English.
Early bird registration deadline is 1 May.
Find out more information and register here >
Read MoreAIIC Brazil and APIC invited to give an online lecture on 10 April: Conference signed and spoken language interpreters collaborative practices. This will followed with an online workshop ‘Interpreting multilingual High-Level meetings & conferences’ for LIBRAS interpreters on 20 April.
Read MoreAlways wanted to learn more about International Sign and also practice yourself? Come to the special training for signers in Siena, Italy. Mason Perkins Deafness Fund (MPDF) is hosting the training together with Siena University.
Read MoreInvitation to submit an abstract by 20 June 2024 to The Interpreter and Translator Trainer for a special issue on Training signed language interpreters and translators!
https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/training-signed-language/
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