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Presenters and Their Topics for 2011.  The 2012 topics and presenters will be posted when accepted.
  There are three (3) tracks on Sunday

The following presenters and topics were accepted.  Several of these proposals are two or four hours in length.  Clicking the presenter's name will take you to a detailed description of each workshop plus biographies of presenters.

Peter Cook and Francisco Olivera will be providing evening workshops

The schedule for all four levels are given below, with advanced/interpreters listed first:

For Advanced/Interpreters:

Trix Bruce from Washington State
ASL Idol
ASL Semantics:  Precision of Expression Series Focus Word:  TAKE
Signs Gone Wrong:  ASL Bloopers

Jon Barr from Georgia
Bible Teaching Methods for a Deaf Class
Forget ASL - or Not!
Interpreting Theological Vocabulary
More Than Signs -- How to Develop a Deaf Ministry
Picture It -- Signing Stories in ASL
Road Signs, Hand Signs and Bible Signs
To Sign or Not to Sign -- How Do You Sign Church Songs?

Terra Benton
Don't Sign It, Incorporate It!
Can Ya Help a Sister Out?  Effective Teaming Strategies
Signs of Substance Abuse

Peter Cook from Chicago, Illinois
Autobody of Performing (6 hours)  (with KEITH WANN!)
Discouse in ASL

Jennifer Cranston
Interpreting vs Transliterating: A Practical Comparison (Sunday morning track --3 hours)
 
Jose Granda
Challenge of Classifiers,The
Signs of Sexual Behavior
Polish Up Fingerspelling and Numbers

Rachel Hirshman
Ethics of Interpreting for Real:  I Don't Think We are in Kansas Anymore

Francisco Olivera
Construct Language:  Stop Telling Me and Show It
Consecutive Interpreting:  Taking it One Chunk at a Time
Cute Mean What?  Signs With Alternate Meanings
Outside Looking In: A N.E.R.D.A.’s View of Deaf Culture

Faith Powell
Do You See What I See?  Increasing comprehension of ASL narratives through guided translation
Inflection:  The Change is in Your Hands!
Semantic Clusters, Part 1
Semantic Clusters, Part 2
STOP SIGNING NOW! Incorporating facial expression, gestures and body language in your ASL and ASL Interpreting.

Bill Ross from North Carolina
Have You Ever Worked With An Interpreter?
Interpreting Like Deaf People Talk
Mentoring:  How to be There for Your Colleagues
Team Interpreting:  There is No I in Team Interpreting

Shannon Simon
CEUS:  How Can I Earn Them?
Everyday Legal Vocabulary
Introduction to Demand-Control Schema for Interpreting Work
The 5 W's of the EIPA

Andrea Smith
The Wild West:  Introduction to Mental Health Interpreting -- this will be Thursday
(There will be a 4-hour in-depth workshop on Mental Health -- topic TBA)
There's an NIC Interview Rubric, What?

Windell "Wink" Smith from Oklahoma
CODA Crash Course Part 1 -- Thursday "night owl" after ASL Idol!
CODA Crash Course Part 2
Make the English Tangible in ASL

Keith Wann
Advanced Sports Signs
Children's Book Story Telling
Ethical and Community Discussion for Interpreters
Autobody of Performing (6 hours) (with PETER COOK!)

Lynne Wiesman from Alabama
Fingerspelling Freeze:  Freak Out or Fix It!
Play as Practice:  Professional Development Does NOT Have to be Punishment
S.N.A.P. Decisions Made with Confidence

Jon Ziev
ASL Idioms

For Fledgings:

Grace Bermudez -- a 12-hour track on an Introduction to American Sign Language (this is a limited access class -- must be registered as a fledging signer)
Objectives are listed in her biography.

For Beginners:

Trix Bruce from Washington State
ASL Idol
You Can Learn to "Think Deaf" Visual Gestural Communication Skills
Trix Upon a Time:  An ASL Storytelling Handbook

Peter Cook from Illinois
Creativity in ASL

JoyAnn DiGiovanni
Tips for Fingerspelling and Understanding Fingerspelling Better
The Rules of Noun and Verb Pairs

Jose Granda
Polish Up on Fingespelling/Numbers
Florida City Signs

Sarah Harris
Guessture
Let's Go Shopping!

Rachel Hirshman
"U-Pick"

Laura Lenes from New York
"How is ASL Grammar Different from English"?
"Time Signs -- Past, Present and Future"
"Family Signs and Personal Signs" 
"Non-Manual Markers and Mouth Morphemes" 

Paul Jones
Stories in ASL

For Intermediates:

Jon Barr from Georgia
Classifiers A through Z
Mouth Morphemes Made Easy
Point!  What?

Trix Bruce from Washington State
ASL Extreme Makeovers:  The Art of Personification
ASL Idol
A Classifier is Born!

Peter Cook from Chicago, Illinois
Creativity in ASL

JoyAnn DiGiovanni
Deaf Culture:  Our Way
More Commonly Asked Questions About the Deaf Community
Numbering in American Sign Language
The Rules of Noun and Verb Pairs -- What is the Movement in ASL?

Jose Granda
Getting a Picture in Your Mind -- Visualization Mapping

Sarah Harris
Storytime, Your Turn
Let's Go Shopping!
Guessture
Animal and Food Signs

Rachel Hirshman
Invest in Your Future:  Numbers, Money and More .. Let's Play Monopoly!
Do Not Pass Go Yet!

Paul Jones
Stories in ASL

Francisco Olivera
CUTE Means What?  10 Signs With Alternate Meanings

Bill Ross from North Carolina
Multiple Meaning Words

Windell "Wink" Smith, Jr. from Oklahoma
Idioms!  Do You See What I'm Saying?

Michael Tuccelli
"ASL Demystified" -- Let "DrSign" show you the tricks to establish signing order such as "Situation Determines Grammar" and "Economy of Motion" to reduce a 25-word English sentence into just two signs!