This course was developed in collaboration with ThinkSelf and is offered by ASLIS. This course is supported in part by grant funding from the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services Division.

Course curriculum

  1. 1

    • Confidentiality Agreement

    • Welcome!

    • About ThinkSelf

    • Knowledge check - ThinkSelf

    • Purpose of This Training & Topics Covered

    • Video: Trauma and the Brain

    • Trauma and Complex Trauma: An Overview

    • Trauma and the Brain: Check for Understanding

    • Video: Language Deprivation in Adults

    • READING: NAD Technical Paper: "Implications of Language Deprivation for Young Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, and Hard of Hearing Children"

    • DVSA Vocabulary & Terminology

    • Knowledge check: DVSA ASL Vocabulary
  2. 2

    • Domestic and Sexual Violence Basics

    • 1 in 6: Survivors of Sexual Trauma Reveal an Important Truth

    • Reflection Question: 1 in 6

    • Your Best Guess

    • Assignment: Reflect on Survivor Advocacy and Victim Rights Websites

    • Visit Website: Me Too Movement

    • Visit Website: Break the Silence

    • Reflection: Survivor Advocacy Websites
  3. 3

    • Victim Services Overview

    • Minnesota Crime Victim Rights

    • Victim or Survivor: Terminology from Investigation Through Prosecution

    • Visit Website: The Deaf Hotline

    • Reminder Confidentiality Agreement

    • Benefits? Not For Us

    • Reflection Question: Benefits? Not For Us

    • Victim Service Overview - Centering Survivors
  4. 4

    • Interpreting Processes

    • Activity: Practice Interpreting (voice to ASL)

    • Reflection Question: Kilomarie

    • Activity: Practice Interpreting (ASL to voice or ASL to voicing "team")

    • Reflection Question: Hazel

    • Strategies for Clarification

    • Reflection: Summarize or Interrupt?

  5. 5

    • Mitigating Vicarious Trauma & Building Resilience

    • Assignment: Engage in ProQOL Activities

    • The ProQOL Measure

    • ProQOL Self Care Tools

    • RESOURCE: Self Care Planner

    • RESOURCE: Vicarious Trauma Resource Booklet
  6. 6

    • Closing

    • References and Resources

    • Before you go...

    • Congratulations!