Hello. As part of a school project, I have a few questions to ask a person who's deaf. Here are the questions:
1. In your opinion, what are the normal requirements to enter the interpreting profession?
2. Could you give me an idea about salary expectations/future job outlook for interpreters?
3. What advice would you give someone entering the field of interpreting?

If anyone can help me, I would greatly appreciate it.

Nikki-
Thank you for the inquiry. If you have a chance please post your e-mail so that I might be able to respond to you. Thank you.
DeafPride membership

Edited by author 01-06-2006 05:00 PM
Hello,

My name is Nikki and I'm a student at Tahoma highschool in Washington state. I'm currently enrolled in an ASL class with a teacher that emphasizes exposure of the Deaf Community. The semester is almost up and for my semester paper I've decided to report on Deaf Pride. I, myself, am hearing. Just in case you were wondering.

I was curious if anybody would be able to tell me exactly how a member of the Deaf Community is involved with it. I know the requirements and everything, but once you're in the Community, how do you continue being active in it?

What does the Deaf Comunity do? Are there meetings, or projects, or anything? (I don't mean to sound stupid or anything, I honestly don't know.)

Is there anything you would like to tell hearing people about the Deaf Community?

Also, are there any good websites I could visit to get a better grasp of the Deaf Community?

I really think that ANY suggestions at all would be helpful and would be very much appreciated. Thank you for anything you can offer to help!

I am a teacher here at Northern and am interested in when your events are this coming semester. I have an assignment where students are suppossed to challenge themselves by doing something they never have before and I'd love to let them know about your events. Please get back to me!

Jill Speicher

tikkun@niu.edu

Hello,

I thought you might be interested to know that your
organization may have an ally in the White House very soon,
but that can only happen with your support.  Howard Dean
has more supporters signed up and actively helping his
campaign than any other candidate in history.  This is
because those of us who have taken the short time necessary
to learn about what he has done and what he WILL do for
America believe wholeheartedly that with him as president,
the world can be a better place.  I know that may sound
cheesy, but it's the truth.  Please spare a bit of time to
learn why he deserves your support.  After that, please go
to GenerationDean.com and signup.  This is the student
branch of his national campaign, so you will automatically
be signed up for that as well (although, not the other way
around).  Don't worry, you won't have to devote any more
time to the effort than you are able to.  Feel free to
email me at z069752@students.niu.edu with any questions.  I
am the GenerationDeanNIU campus coordinator.  I look
forward to hearing from you.  For additional information,
please visit: deanfordeafamerica.blogspot.com

Finally, please pass this information on to any and all
people that you feel may have a desire to see all Americans
treated equally as we do, or who just want to see a
brighter future for America.

Thank you,

Eric Reyes

I am new to NIU. I am 21 and hard of hearing. It is a realitivly recient event and i was hoping to meet some others who are hard of hearing to discuss issues that hearing friends do not understand.
Kristina
Starbuckkitty@hotmail.com

Hi all. I was woundering when you are going to update your website. I am taking sign language classes and want to become a deaf interpter. I would like information on when you meetings are.

Doug

email derdahl1965@yahoo.com

Hello Deaf friends and others, I was wondering when will you update your website and would like to recieve information of this year DAW.
Please send info to rev_jackson2002@yahoo.com

hi! Im a student at L.D. Bell and Im in ASL were doing a paper on deaf pride. Im wondering if you would please give me your opinion on how you would like for hearing people to teach the hearing and the deaf to teach the deaf. Im not trying to offend anyone you can email me at SiULoLo_La2@yahoo.com please. i would really like your advice.

I am deaf student of NTID a college of ROchester institute of Technology but hailed from Ghana.. As i just entered this country and found a fascinating things about the deaf here especially the culture adn deaf pride. I have in the past couple years learned about the deaf culture and i am still learning. But since i think we all have varying ideas about deaf culture and deaf pride, yours might be different from mine. Therefore, i should be grateful if any of you will like to share yoru knowledge with me. my email address is tiger3998@yahoo.co.uk

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My hello to all the staff and students at NIU-PHI 2002-2003,

Just wanted to say hi and hope everyone is doing good. I am almost done with high school with four months to go. I had a great time this past summer at NIU-PHI. I learned a lot about myself and others. Strive for your best and you will go far in life. Good Luck and finish hard. Feel free to give me an update on how things are going at my e-mail address which is cbeth18@hotmail.com. My happiness to everyone and I hope to return soon.

:-) Candace :-)

Hi all

I am hearingand have no deaf family but i have been signing since i was 13 when i met my best friend to be who was deaf and since then she has inspired me to gain my qualifications in improving my skills. most of my friends are deaf.

so, eight yrs later i am at university training to become an interpreter, i still have a way to go but i am learning, it is soo interesting. i do not want to develope an attitude as some do but reamain myself.

anyway, i am wondering if anyone could help me and tell me what they think is the 'deaf way' or 'deaf culture'...any help would be appreciated. my email address is: jellybeans29@hotmail.com

thanks again

bibibi

linz.x

The NAD is not a reputable organization. They KNEW FULL WELL FOR YEARS that a deaf man in Pittsburgh was being savagely tortured and ritually molested by a violent, criminally insane Hollywood gangster named Martin Sheen and did nothing, but encourage the sexual depradations and despicable hate offenses of this cowardly, violent and cruel animal. Marlee Matlin is a fraud and a ferocious vermin of the celebrity superstate whose endorsement of Martin Sheen's brutality and false witness program consciously provoked the brutal a.m. rape of a deaf mentally retarded girl, still legally a child. How dare the NAD posture as guarding the rights of the nation's deaf? These deferers to celebrity impunity.

I FORGOT TO PUT MY E-MAIL IN THAT MESSAGE! ITS CELTICRENEE@AOL.COM THANKS!

HI EVERYONE! IM A SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER FOR A BOY THAT IS HARD OF HEARING. HE IS NOT VERY COMFORTABLE WITH HIS DEAFNESS AS HE HAS BEEN RAISED AS IF HE WASD HEARING. HIS CLASSMATES ARE VERY INTERESTED IN LEARNING SIGN LANGUAGE BUT I CAN TELL HE FEELS AWKWARD. CAN ANYONE SEND ME SOME UPLIFTING MESSAGES FOR HIM? I HAVE SEEN A ESSAY ABOUT "WHY I AM GLAD I AM DEAF". I WAS THINKING OF THINGS LIKE THAT! HE IS A SMART AND FUNNY KID AND I HATE TO SEE HIM HOLDING BACK FROM HIS FRIENDS BECAUSE HE FEELS DIFFERENT. ANYTHING YOU CAN SEND FOR HIM OR LINKS YOU CAN SEND ME AS TO WHERE I CAN FIND THINGS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED! THANKS

Hello everybody!

My name is Elizabeth Enzweiler. I am proud to be hard of hearing. I am 25 years ol. I just want to tell you I like and had some fun at Progam for Hearing Impaird that I went in 1996-1997 school year. I learn alot and I am very indepement person. I was a big NIU Fan for awhile. I still fan little bit but not as much I used to. I just want to say hello to everybody that were in PHI iin 1996-1997 that were students and staff from that year of PHI. I just want to say hello to current staff that maybe remember me I was a PHI student in 96-97 school year. I lost touch alot of PHI friends and now NIU friends for many reasons. I have tons of greatest, closest, best, long term friends at my church at my town and few I am friends with from wal mart that is very good friends, close friends. When I was at NIU I had a great cool fun intersting friend from NIU volleyball team and she was a deaf rehab major. She knew little sign lang and but not anymore. That woman name was Becky Stewart that were DORS major and V-ball player. She graduated in 1998. She is year older than me. She don't work at DORS but she work at Insurnce Company in WISC and moving to FL as same kind of job but transfeir. She is wonderful. I miss her. I miss NIU and still remember some of wonderful fun times and things at NIU. Now trying to make alot of money at wal mart at Bloomington IL. It hard at times but that part of being a grown up and on my own. I learn alot when I am at church and church friends. I can read lips, I talk too much, I can hear with hearing aid better than with out it. I don't use sign lang very much but that is ok don't need if of what I been doing and going through. I am very slow at sign lang. I lost alot of sign lang skills but oh well. I graduated from School for the Deaf in 1996. I did not like it there at all. IT was no fun and alot of bad experence and it is long story. But NIU and PHI was my best experence in some ways. Well Have a happy rest of the fall time. lizzy_huskies_9@excite.com
bye.
Elizabeth