Accent On Interpreting

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Thursday

New Tip of the week

Develop Sense memory

Sense memory is that wonderful sensation of your body knowing what to do without you having to think about it. Remember when you first learned to ride a bicycle, or roller skate. Before there was success, there was this tricky little thing called "balance.' Your body had to learn how to shift your weight minutely to keep you from falling to one side or the other. In the same way, the muscles of your hands can learn patterns and actions that can reduce the amount of time you put into thinking about the interpreting process.

Consider how much easier it is now to spell your own name than the day your first learned to fingerspell. With practice, you are spelling it because it is your name, not because of each letter identified with the spelling. In the same way, we can practice words to spell, or commonly signed phrases so our multi-tasking brain can trust the hands to handle certain things. Just remember, this is not permission to interpret on auto-pilot. Just train yourself to trust what you know how to do.