The Costs Incurred: Hearing Non-Signers and Signed Language Interpreters
Deaf people and signed language interpreters live in an uneasy co-existence. We need access to the hearing world; interpreters need to work for their livelihood. The irony of entering a dependent relationship in order to obtain enough information to be autonomous as a professional has always rankled, but that is the state of play*.
A discussion about signed language interpreter ethics erupted this weekend on Facebook about Gallaudet University economics professor Dr. Khadijat Rashid’s response to the Wall Street Journal article featuring signed language interpreter Travis Painter. [Disclosure -- Dr. Rashid is a friend and colleague.]
In a nutshell, Professor Rashid wrote an open response to the WSJ article, which can be viewed here. There are many seeming violations of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf(RID) Code of Professional Conduct, but I will not take those on in this post. That is for the RID Ethical Practices System (EPS) to take up once they have received the formal complaint. [Second disclosure -- I have served as a paid and volunteer consultant to RID re: EPS].
Read the full article at Deaf Echo
(http://www.deafecho.com/2014/02/the-costs-incurred-hearing-non-signers-and-signed-language-interpreters/)
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