Spoken English with ASL Interpretation

0.2 Professional Studies 

ASLIS is an Approved RID CMP Sponsor for Continuing Education Activities. This Professional Studies program is offered for a total of 0.2 CEUs at Some Content Knowledge Level.

Kathleen Holcombe interprets in the Video Relay Service (VRS) setting with considerable previous experience as a K-12 Educational interpreter, and trains interpreters to facilitate groups in the reflective practice of supervision. Kathleen has been a faculty member and Practicum Coordinator at Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf (RIT/NTID), and an adjunct faculty member of Onondaga Community College and the University of Cincinnati. She participated in the Dong Nai University Project training interpreters in Vietnam through RIT’s Pre-College Education Network International (2012–2015). In 2021 she designed and implemented a curriculum for an online training of Vietnamese interpreters through the Center for Research and Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing with support from Oxfam International. Kathleen collaborated with a colleague to develop a comprehensive training program for sign language interpreters in inclusive educational settings through the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports in Cambodia’s National Institute of Special Education (2023). Kathleen has collaborated on research presented at Critical Link 7 & 8, and the World Association of Sign Language Interpreters conference (2015). She has presented a variety of workshops and led consultation groups, most recently addressing the continued increase in video relay service and video remote interpreting within the U.S. and U.K.

Kathleen earned an MA in Interpreting Studies with an emphasis on teaching, Western Oregon University (2014) and her BA from RIT/NTID (2011), ASL/English Interpreting with a minor in Deaf Studies.