Interpreter Discourse: English to ASL Expansion / ASL to English Compression One CD-ROM Author: Lynn Finton, MS, CSC and Richard Smith, CSC Length: 10 hours (approximate study time to complete) ISBN: 0-9749979-0-0 Audience: For Interpreters and ITP Programs Description: The authors, interpreter educators and accomplished interpreters, believe that certain concepts in English are expanded to be ASL-appropriate. Similarly, they hold that certain concepts in ASL are compressed to be English-appropriate. Fluent interpreting from one language to the other involves knowing when and how to expand and when and how to compress. Practice exercises with the source language materials in this CD-ROM are designed to increase your skill and dexterity in using expansion and compression when interpreting between ASL and English. Interpreters and ASL students who want their use of ASL to look more native and to shift smoothly and naturally between ASL and English will find the strategies taught in this CD-ROM enormously helpful. Rich with text and practice opportunities, this CD-ROM includes: Printable articles that introduce the concepts of expansion and compression Model interpretations of sentence length and longer discourse in both ASL and English Printable transcripts of all spoken English texts The pull-out insert card provided with the CD-ROM contains guidelines for using Interpreter Discourse: English to ASL Expansion and ASL to English Compression to earn Independent Study CEUs from the RID. This CD-ROM provides up to 10 hours of focused instruction.