Foundations Managing Wednesdays (Oct/Nov/Dec)

 

Foundations Managing, ONLINE

Join us on Wednesdays late October through early December, 2023

 

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 This is an online seminar on Zoom! 

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Please note, this is a seminar with 7 weekly sessions

 

 This seminar is primarily in English with no interpretation.

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Financial Assistance through SIGN

  

C/DI, BIPOC, Coda/hearing interpreters living in AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, OK, SC, TN, TX: you may be eligible to receive financial assistance from the Southeastern Interpreter Guidance Network (SIGN) for registration in Foundations and other BMC seminars.

Fill out this form to apply first, before you register for this seminar. When you register, choose the Pre-approved Payment Plan instead of PayPal. In the comments section of your registration, let us know in which of these states you reside: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, OK, SC, TN, TX.

BMC will hold your seat and SIGN will contact you for more information.

Foundations Managing, Wednesdays Oct-Dec

 
 
 

Schedule and Cost

Start Date 10-25-2023 6:00 pm
End Date 12-13-2023 9:00 pm
Registrations Completed 23
Price Early-Bird Registration $265 by Sept 15, 2023. Regular registration $295 starting Sept 15, 2023 after 5pm Eastern.

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This session is filled to capacity. Find other options in the Online Seminars or In-Person Seminars menus.

Betty M. Colonomos Bio

Betty Colonomos head shotBetty M. Colonomos, currently serving as Director of the Bilingual Mediation Center, is a fluent ASL/English bilingual. Her academic background is in Deaf Education/Speech Pathology (B.S.), Counseling (M.A.), Linguistics (Doctoral program). Betty holds the Masters Comprehensive Skills Certificate (MCSC) from RID. She was the second recipient of the Mary Stotler Award for excellence in Interpreter Education from CIT.

Betty has chaired and served on many national committees on standards and evaluation of interpreters and served as President of the Conference of Interpreter Trainers (CIT). Ms. Colonomos has authored and appeared in video materials on interpreting and she co-authored (with MJ Bienvenu) videos on Deaf Culture, ASL Facial Grammar, and ASL Numbers. She worked as an International Sign interpreter for numerous conferences worldwide. Betty also consults with schools and the legal system as an expert on linguistic and cultural issues impacting the Deaf Community.

Betty is the developer of the Integrated Model of Interpreting (IMI), which is the most widely used model in the U.S. for teaching cognitive processes in interpreting.

She teaches the Foundations of Interpreting Series for hearing, Coda and Deaf interpreters that combines study of the IMI with a Vygotskian approach to learning.

Betty is the creator of the Etna Project (2002 – present) held in New Hampshire and Maryland. The project is a series of retreats supporting a Community of Reflective Practitioners who are interpreters committed to their own growth as they seek to become agents for change in the field of interpreting.

 

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