Workshop: Modeling Visual Language – June 24

Speaker: Wink Smith

Wink, MA, MBA, NIC, Master, enjoys researching and creating various workshops that focus on skill building through deliberate practice, which he wrote about in the RID Views, Winter 2012 issue. Presenting workshops the last fifteen years at national conferences (RID I, II, III, IV, V), state conferences, and local workshops across the nation has given Wink experiences to enhance applications for interpreters of all levels. Wink is widely noted for the comfortable atmosphere he creates and the passion he exudes. Currently, Wink travels full-time performing, presenting workshops, and managing Winkshop, Inc., through which he has developed a dozen training materials. Wink currently is working on his PhD in linguistics from Gallaudet University where he investigates the embodied motivations of imagery in depiction.

ASL: https://youtu.be/o4Pv0mAqETA

*Wink is an Approved RID CMP Sponsor for continuing education activities. This Professional Studies program is offered for .2 CEUs at the Content Knowledge Level.

Should you require accommodations, please contact prior to 6/3/2023. This event upholds nondiscriminatory practices and encourages a learning environment of mutual respect and free from bias. Sadly, we are not able to offer refunds, though we gladly facilitate exchanges for future events.

Date: 6/24/2023 – 9:00a PT. Estimated runtime: 2 hours.

Location: Online Only (via Zoom link)

RID | ACET | .2 CEUs Offered*

Educational interpreters are language models for Deaf students. For some Deaf students, their interpreter is their only language model for a signed language.

This workshop will help you explore the meaning of being a ‘language model’ and how this modeling impacts students acquiring at least two languages within the school system, American Sign Language and English.

The workshop then introduces concepts from cognitive linguistics to analyze how language provides access to knowledge structures through categorization and how each language provides a specific way of viewing, or construing, that knowledge.

Educational Objectives

At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:

• Define and provide one example of a “plain sign”
• Define and provide one example of a “depictive sign”
• Demonstrate at least 3 different depictive features
• Explain how depiction is similar to other terms such as: Discourse mapping, spatial mapping, use of space, and showing.