Mr. Michael S. Potian, PAIDE S-L Training Officer had his second time to visit Malaysia not for a pleasure trip but for another sign language interpreters’ skills assessment and educational interpreting workshop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The very first one was November 4 and 5 of 2011 wherein he administered interpreter skills assessment to 10 sign language interpreters. The second time was last May 25 for 3 sign language interpreters who joined the 1st ever series of interpreters’ training program last May 26 and 27 under the Philippine Association of Interpreters for Deaf Empowerment (PAIDE) and the RC Deaf Missions Malaysia.
Assisted him during the assessment was RC Deaf Missions Malaysia Evaluation team spearheaded by Ms. Agnes Peter, the Director of RCDMM together with the 2 deaf evaluators namely: Low Chai Yun and Susie Ng.
For the 1st weekend of the 4 weekend’ series of the interpreters’ training workshop, Mr. Potian presented thru power point, lectures on deaf awareness; history of sign language and workshops in fingerspelling techniques; song interpretation and educational interpreting. Both Low Chai Yun and Susie Ng and another 2 deaf RCDMM staff participated in the 2-day training workshop with 8 other interpreter-participants.
Ms. Agnes Peter had this to say: “I believe our participants benefitted much from the teachings. The fingerspelling techniques were most useful. They are all looking forward to next training in September. Thank you very much. This training is excellent” (sent thru e-mail dated June 4, 2012).
In behalf of PAIDE community, I congratulate you Mr. Michael Potian for a job well done! More to come…