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

$39.00

This webinar will be hosted via Zoom for national and international attendees on Tuesday, August 5, 2025 from 6-8 pm ET.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial disclosures: Lee is employed by Texas School for the Deaf and is receiving an honorarium from Language First for this presentation.

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

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

6:00-6:10: Introduction

6:10-6:25: Deafness and mental health diagnoses/statistics

6:25-6:40: Deafness and misdiagnoses

6:20-7:00: Terminology and age of onset

7:00-7:20: Intake questions

7:20-7:45: Sight translation practice (suicide and self-harm assessments)

7:45-8:00: Q&A

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

Registration information:

This is a digital purchase only; no physical ticket is provided. A form will populate for you to complete your registration and then your purchase will be added to your cart in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. You will receive an email with instructions on how to participate as well as a Google Calendar invite with the Zoom link one week prior to the event. Registration ends one day prior to the webinar. All registrants will receive a copy of the presenter’s PowerPoint and the presentation recording. Please email info@language1st.org with any questions.

This webinar will be hosted via Zoom for national and international attendees on Tuesday, August 5, 2025 from 6-8 pm ET.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial disclosures: Lee is employed by Texas School for the Deaf and is receiving an honorarium from Language First for this presentation.

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

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

6:00-6:10: Introduction

6:10-6:25: Deafness and mental health diagnoses/statistics

6:25-6:40: Deafness and misdiagnoses

6:20-7:00: Terminology and age of onset

7:00-7:20: Intake questions

7:20-7:45: Sight translation practice (suicide and self-harm assessments)

7:45-8:00: Q&A

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

Registration information:

This is a digital purchase only; no physical ticket is provided. A form will populate for you to complete your registration and then your purchase will be added to your cart in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. You will receive an email with instructions on how to participate as well as a Google Calendar invite with the Zoom link one week prior to the event. Registration ends one day prior to the webinar. All registrants will receive a copy of the presenter’s PowerPoint and the presentation recording. Please email info@language1st.org with any questions.

Continuing Education:

This event is offered for 0.20 ASHA CEUs. Only participants who attend the live event will receive a certificate of attendance. Participants who attend the entire webinar and fill out the self assessment form will be considered eligible to earn ASHA CEUs.

MassRID is an approved continuing education activity sponsor, and this event is being offered at 0.20 Professional Studies CEUs at the "some previous knowledge" content level.  Attendance during the entire workshop is required for earning CEUs.  A certificate is provided to those who request CEUs via the given link to a Google Forms document.

Accommodations:

This event will be in English with ASL interpreters and captions. Please email info@language1st.org with requests for additional accommodations at least 14 days prior to the event.

Course Availability:

This course will be available in the Language First Learning Library after the live event is over.

Cancellation/Refund Policy:

Full refunds for webinars and other events are available up to 14 days prior to the event. No refunds are available after that time. If Language First cancels or moves a webinar or event, all participants will be given the options of a.) receiving a full refund; b.) applying the amount paid to another event; c.) transferring their registration to the new date. If a registrant has a complaint or is unsatisfied with a webinar or event, please email info@language1st.org with “complaint” in the subject line.