Course curriculum

  • 1

    Intro

    • Interpreting for Suicide and Self-Harm Evaluations in the School Setting

    • PowerPoint

    • Quiz

    • Evaluation

    • Continuing Education Credits

Course information

Course description: 

This session will examine how the educational interpreter faces the mental health setting within the school system. Participants will have the opportunity to explore common mental health terms, diagnoses, intake procedures, and statistics regarding mental health in the deaf community, followed by hands-up practice with common suicide and self-harm assessments used in the school system.


Agenda:

10 minutes: Introduction 

15 minutes: Deafness and mental health diagnoses/statistics

15 minutes: Deafness and misdiagnoses

20 minutes: Terminology and age of onset

20 minutes: Intake questions

15 minutes: Sight translation practice (suicide and self-harm assessments)


Learner outcomes:

Participants will be able to:

  1. State common mental health diagnoses and age of onset

  2. Analyze questions commonly used for intake interviews

  3. Apply appropriate expansion and compression techniques for sight translations of assessments

Instructor(s)

Lee Godbold

Lee Godbold has been an interpreter for 20+ years and holds her BEI Master, Court, Medical, RID NIC, Ed K-12, and Q-MHI. Her work has spanned 18 states and 3 continents. She currently works at Texas School for the Deaf as the Supervisor of Sign Language Services. Additionally, she serves as the Vice Chair for the Texas BEI Advisory Board. She previously worked for the University of North Florida as adjunct faculty, and has presented nationally on a variety of interpreting topics. In 2011, Lee had the opportunity to conduct research on social language competency of educational interpreters at the University of Graz in Austria, and her contribution to an interpreting textbook was published in 2013. She was involved with the Texas Mental Health Initiative for Deaf Youth from 2016-2022.

Speaker disclosures:

Financial disclosures: Lee is employed by Texas School for the Deaf and is receiving royalties from Language First for this course.

Nonfinancial disclosures: Lee is the BEI Advisory Board Vice Chair.

Continuing Education

This course is offered for 0.15 ASHA CEUs.
This workshop is available as a PINRA through WisRID. Please reach out to WisRID BEFORE taking this workshop for more information about receiving CEUs. Head here for more information: bit.ly/LLRIDCEUS