Todd Agan

Lead sign language interpreter for the Division of General and Hospital medicine. Interpreter, educator, & trainer.

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Hey @Starbucks I get that they’re wrapped but I don’t really wanna see your sandwich crates sitting on the floor

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Fun new toy for my next anatomy workshop. #medicalinterpreter #interpretereducation

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@grahamhturner @coreyaxelrod @kevinlerickson @stenoknight I suspect that a potentially great discussion is limited by platform, sadly. I would like to better understand your perspective though. Thank you for the link.

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@grahamhturner @coreyaxelrod @kevinlerickson @stenoknight Without working from a meaning-based framework, one may as well use Google translate.

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@grahamhturner @coreyaxelrod @kevinlerickson @stenoknight As an interpreter I understand that occasionally we run up against things that are uninterpretable (no equivalent concept in the other language). But maintaining meaning is at the heart of what we should be doing.

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@grahamhturner @coreyaxelrod @kevinlerickson @stenoknight I’d like a bit more clarification to this. Saying that all interpretations ‘change meaning’ concerns me.

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@coreyaxelrod @semaj187 Another issue that I see is that terps assume linguistic competence in any and every setting. With 150+ diff kinds of docs, docs themselves admit that they don’t understand it all. How possible for Terps to do what docs can’t?

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@coreyaxelrod @semaj187 Multiple fallacies going in here... that there is *one sign* for technical medical words; that an interpreter having a medical creeemtial will mean that they will understand and be able to talk about it in either English or ASL

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Noticing a change in the signed language interpreter field, which makes me wonder: How are people currently defining/using the terms ���designated interpreters” or “designated interpreting”?

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"Exploring Deaf Physicians' and Physician Trainees' Experiences with Designated Interpreters" posting soon

https://t.co/mMolnYC7z7