Trilingual Panel
Ruth de JesusReveille
The objective of this panel is to educate the audience on the different parties involved in a Trilingual setting and the available resources. The discussion can include the consumer, Hispanic families with deaf family members and/or Hispanic/Latin Deaf individuals, an agency that uses trilingual interpreters, a certified trilingual interpreter, a deaf professional that uses trilingual interpreters on a regular basis, a trilingual educator, and the president of Mano a Mano. This will help the audience get a better understanding of why trilingual interpreters are an important part of the sign language profession, why they are not used more often, what can be done to bring more awareness to certain issues, how to provide more resources for working trilingual interpreters, and how to grow the number of working trilingual interpreters.
