ASL Master Mentor
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Certified master tutor & mentor in American Sign Language, my goal is to provide individual students and long distance students tailored tutoring services. It offers ASL evaluations and mentoring services. My specialty targets ASL students with mild to severe learning challenges.
ASL Master Mentor
1y ago
Seek a career in a variety of settings. ASL Interpreting graduates can choose to work at various places, such as:
K-12 Education
Adult Education Centers
Colleges and Universities
Conferences
Public Events
Medical, doctors’ offices and hospitals
Mental Health and social services
Substance Abuse counseling
Non-profit and Corporate meetings and events
Religious settings and events
Social events
Legal settings
Government
Vocational Rehabilitation
Performing Arts
Deaf Blind-Tactile/Close-vision
Video Relay/Video
Remote interpreting (Zoom, etc)
Retreats
Workshops
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ASL Master Mentor
3y ago
It is with great sadness that last month, on a Saturday of May 8th, 2021, approximately 4:10pm, an illegally speeding white pick up truck (over 30 MPH) murdered my hearing service dog, Ziggy Sequoia, while he was playing fetch the ball.
It was the worse nightmare ever to witness a brutal killing of my precious Ziggy, a 12 years young, energetic, clear minded 12 years Patterdale Terrier. He suffered terrible, had a big gash on his chest and the color of his eyes changed several times & he tried to inhale, but had a seizure, then stiffened all of his limbs while laying on the ally, and ..read more
ASL Master Mentor
3y ago
Here is homework I want you to do:
For 5 days a week for 1 hour - I want you to practice interpreting consecutive dialogs from your favorite TV show, a movie, interview, radio host, YouTube channel, etc.
No rewinding videos to listen again - must be raw, right there on the spot real-time interpreting rehearsing.
Pretend there is an audience of Deaf people watching you so you feel formal.
Put in your best effort to look, feel and act as professional as possible.
Videotape yourself interpreting via in ASL and voicing from different interesting topics. Vary the topics ..read more
ASL Master Mentor
3y ago
As an American Sign Language (ASL) Master tutor, I often see students feeling very concerned about not having enough confidence.
Experience creates confidence. This means as a student of any subject, we need to repeat our practice until it's fluent/fluid/excellent before we tackle on the next topic we need to learn.
This article explain wonderfully the western society mentality of treating having confidence is like as if it's a personality trait one is born with.
Please read the article here.
Keep on practicing those ASL vocabulary until you memorize it 101%.  ..read more
ASL Master Mentor
3y ago
How to Improve your 100mbps WiFi Connection During the Pandemic:
Since March 2020, the entire civilized population who has access to a computer and the internet to use a webcam for online meetings/classes/sessions has been forced to either telework or attend mandatory meetings/lessons at home and that means sharing with your family/roommates and/or neighbors.
This sharing of one bandwidth with others creates choppy videos - I found an honest answer from a knowledgeable person and I agree with him:
Originally Answered: i have 100mbps internet. So, why can't I get full do ..read more
ASL Master Mentor
4y ago
Comic Relief for ASL Signers
One of the best tool to switch from left brain linear spoken or written English (pick any language) to the right brain creative 3 dimensional hemisphere - is to use comic strips or a comic book to describe classifiers of people, animals, environment and backgrounds.
Another method is to mime one segment of a short situation and ONLY mime the story. This requires strict discipline to not be tempted to sign ASL. After a few "rehearsals" of miming story A; then we move on to adding ASL classifiers with the mimed actions. I've witnessed ASL students dramatically ..read more
ASL Master Mentor
4y ago
Here is an excellent video to warm up and loosen stiff muscles in your hands, although assigned for musicians, it applies for American Sign Language (ASL) signers too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jWxIPrBSdQ
Stay Safe!
Cheers,
RaVen Sequoia
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ASL Master Mentor
5y ago
Since I get so many requests for how to learn more about CPC here's an excellent video discusses about RID Code of Professional Conduct signed in ASL by a CODA interpreter named Wink (Will Smith): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fyaoaTb-X8 ..read more