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Upcoming Mentoring & Courses

Mentor Program

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Prerequisite:

1. An evaluation from either the EIPA, NIC or BEI in the recent 12 months is required. If you have not been assessed by the above evaluations, you will need to be assessed using CCSLI’s Sign Language Interpreter-Skills Evaluation (SLI-SE). You will receive your results within 2 weeks. More information can be found on our
website.
2. Interpreting experience.

Placement:

If your evaluation determines your skill set is “Conversational” and not “Entry Level Interpreting”, you will first need participate in CCSLI’s “ASL Chat with Deaf Language Mentors” and/or do one-on-one mentoring with a Deaf Language Mentor. Interpreters must achieve fluency prior to attending one-on-one training with a Deaf Interpreting Mentor.

Language Competency:

A Deaf Interpreting Mentor will work one hour weekly with the Mentee and focus on one of the following categories over the course of 12 weeks (homework will be assigned).

12 weeks – 1 hour with Mentor each week

  • Mentorship 1 – Foundational skills (fingerspelling, pace, articulation, numbers)
  • Mentorship 2 – Prosody (stress and emphasis, affect, register)
  • Mentorship 3 – Grammar I (sentences and sentence types, clauses, non-manual markers) 
  • Mentorship 4 – Grammar II (verbs, pronouns, utilizing space, classifiers)

Interpreter Proficiency:

  • Mentorship 5 – Processing and Discourse Mapping

All CCSLI Mentors will focus on practical application. Prices vary slightly depending on Mentor.-

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    Upcoming Workshops

    Instructor: Gail K. Carmona MBA NIC ED:K-12

    Instructor: Gail K. Carmona MBA NIC ED:K-12

    Born and raised in Ontario, Canada, Gail relocated to California in 2000. She has worked as an interpreter for the State of California’s Department of Rehabilitation, interpreted at numerous colleges and universities, worked in the cruise industry, and interpreted in K-12 settings.

    Additionally, she has experience in VRS. Gail is an active member of CASLI (formerly AVLIC) and CIT. In 2008, Gail founded Central Coast Sign Language Interpreters LLC (now CCSLI INC), which provides both interpreting services throughout California and sign language interpreter training services nationally. She has served on RID’s Educational Interpreter Task Force and for eight years as an Evaluator for the EIPA. In 2018, Gail developed the Sign Language Interpreter – Skills Evaluation (SLI-SE) and continues to work with the SLI-SE as an evaluator

    Instructor: Dustin Yaeger BA:

    Instructor: Dustin Yaeger BA:

    Dustin is a native user of American Sign Language and as a result, he brings the important perspective of being a Deaf consumer of interpreting services.

    He has worked as a translator in New York on projects that provide Deaf access to education in ASL. He holds a bachelors degree in English and is a member of the Conference of Interpreter Trainers. In addition to teaching ASL, for the past 5 years Dustin has worked as a Deaf Interpreter and Interpreter Mentor.