{"id":289,"date":"2016-06-17T11:46:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communication\/?p=289"},"modified":"2024-01-30T15:30:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:30:54","slug":"sign-language-student-follows-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communications-educational-information\/sign-language-student-follows-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign language student follows her heart #SPCinspires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Holli Tempe was child, she loved to watch Linda Bove, the deaf actress who played <em>Linda the Librarian<\/em> on the PBS children\u2019s show Sesame Street. She was fascinated when Bove would pop up in a little interpreting bubble during the show.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SPC Inspires Me: Holli Tempe\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tNniC9tLFfM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Years later, when Tempe started her studies at St. Petersburg College, she jumped on the chance to take American Sign Language (ASL) classes. Initially, she planned to pursue a career in computer programming. By the time she graduated with her Associate of Arts degree, she had taken ASL levels 1, 2 and 3. After graduation she transferred to the University of South Florida to study computer programming. It only took one semester for her to realize programming wasn\u2019t for her. Eventually, she returned to SPC and completed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/signlanguage\/\">Associate in Science degree in Sign Language Interpretation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remembered right away how much I loved it,\u201d she said. \u201cThe instruction I had at SPC was just phenomenal.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Sign language internship provides invaluable experience<\/h3>\n<p>SPC\u2019s sign language program has a required internship that made a big difference to Tempe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy SPC internship was amazing,\u201d she said. \u201cIt definitely helped improve my skills and gave me the experience of a live interpreting situation so that when I got out in the community I didn\u2019t have that deer in the headlights experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Career event leads to interpreting job<\/strong><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_291\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-291\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-291 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communication\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/06\/Holli-Tempe-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sign Language graudate Holli Tempe\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communications-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/06\/Holli-Tempe-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communications-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/06\/Holli-Tempe.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holli Tempe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During her final term at SPC she attended a career event where she connected with Purple Communications, an interpretation company that serves the local Deaf community. They tested her interpreting skill level and offered her a job before she even walked across the stage at graduation.<\/p>\n<p>She continued to work for Purple Communications and enrolled in the University of North Florida\u2019s ASL\/English Interpreting undergraduate program. Their A.S. to B.S. transfer program is offered mostly online. Students come to campus in Jacksonville one weekend a month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I left SPC, I felt totally ready for the bachelors program at UNF,\u201d she said. \u201cThe SPC professors expect that you will continue your education and meet your goal of being a nationally certified interpreter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She earned her bachelor\u2019s degree from UNF two years later and is now pursuing a master\u2019s degree in the same program with a concentration in Interpreting Pedagogy. Her goal is eventually to return to SPC to teach interpreting classes.<\/p>\n<p>She also passed the national certification tests with the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing RID certified makes you more valuable to your employer,\u201d she said. \u201cIt also opens doors for other interpreting opportunities where you can improve your skills and increase your knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tempe said her SPC instructors and administration were very supportive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSPC inspired me to continue to focus on my goals,\u201d she said. \u201cThey expected a lot and held me accountable \u2013 and for me, that was very motivating.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Holli Tempe was child, she loved to watch Linda Bove, the deaf actress who played Linda the Librarian on the PBS children\u2019s show Sesame Street. She was fascinated when Bove would pop up in a little interpreting bubble during the show. Years later, when Tempe started her studies at St. Petersburg College, she jumped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communications-educational-information\/sign-language-student-follows-dreams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sign language student follows her heart #SPCinspires<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"coauthors":[16],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-sign-language","category-communications"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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