CPD For British Sign Language Interpreters

Expand your professional range with structured professional development courses.
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Welcome to Appa's professional development courses

Accreditation is an important factor in working as a professional BSL Interpreter. It shows that you are actively growing and advancing as a professional by developing and honing your skills and keeping up with developments.

The main accreditation bodies for BSL Interpreters, the NRCPD and RBSLI, require a certain number of hours of CPD activity per year. A proportion of this needs to be structured and recorded with a certificate.

At our offices in Lewisham, South East London, or remote via Zoom, we provide structured CPD training for BSL interpreters that meet NRCPD requirements.

These are interactive, live teaching sessions with dialogue and feedback. There is none of that pre-recorded video of readings from a powerslide. We take professional development seriously, and we hold ourselves to high standards of training quality.

You will not get a better CPD experience elsewhere!

Course Units

Learning Outcomes

  • L01

Use receptive and productive skills to engage in varied social interaction

  • LO2

Maintain fluency, grammatical accuracy and coherence in sustained contributions containing varied language

  • LO3

Understand sustained signed communication containing varied language

Remote (VRI) Interpreting

Using Zoom and Teams effectively in Interpreting

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Voice Coaching for Interpreters

Using and protecting your voice

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Vicarious Trauma

Mental health and longevity in interpreting

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Prevention Over Cure

Physical health and longevity in interpreting

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Open Process Interpreting

Interpreting as a collaborative effort

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Elephant in the Room

Interpreting; a loss process

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