Dee King
Registered Sign Language Interpreter (RSLI)
Hi, I’m Dee, Director of Signthesis and Registered Sign Language Interpreter. I have been working with the Deaf Community since 2010 and I am passionate about my work.
I am versatile and able to adapt my approach to suit each individual I work with, drawing on a wide range of experience and strong interpersonal skills.
I am mindful of using inclusive language, empowering practices, and being an ally to those who experience disadvantages.
I am a reflective practitioner who is dedicated to continuous development. I actively seek out opportunities to enhance my knowledge and hone my interpreting skills.
I have many connections within the Deaf Community and associated Service Providers. I recognise the importance of wholistic customer care, and offer the added value of signposting my customers to other services they may benefit from.
Credentials
Trained in Equality Diversity and Inclusion best practice for Interpreters, including:
- Being an Effective Anti-racist Ally
- Neurodiversity and Inclusive Design
- Gender Inclusive Language
- Interpreting in LGBTQIA+ Settings
- Hearing Privilege
Trained in Emotional Intelligence & Interpersonal Skills, including:
- Conflict Management
- Having Difficult Conversations
- Effective Communication Skills
- Solution-Oriented Thinking
- Personality Types: Myers-Briggs & DISC
General Interpreting Experience
Education
- University lectures and tutorials
- Vocational training
- Parent Teacher meetings
- School Assemblies
- Children’s clubs for primary school children with complex needs
- Driving Theory Tests
Employment
- DWP Jobcentre appointments
- Office support for Deaf professionals
- Access to Work bookings
- Deaf Business Owner meetings with clients
- First Aid Training
- AGM Meetings
Community
- Home Visits
- Physiotherapy appointments
- Opticians appointments
- Dental appointments
- GP appointments
- Hospital consultations
- Care Home Visits
- Hearing Dog owner visits
Specialist Areas
Creative Arts
- Integrated Interpreter for Boogie Booth dance show and interactive workshop
- Work with Deaf artists at the Turner Contemporary Art Gallery, See and Create Medway, & Gloverman Art
- Interpreting for Creative Medway Congress
Cultural
- Call the Midwife set tour & interview with the cast
- Ramsgate Tunnels overground & underground tour for Deaf youth group
- Folkestone Triennial outdoor art exhibition tour
Travel
- Experience working as a BSL Communicator with Voluntears, for a group trip of Deaf and Hearing people to Nepal
- Experience of working with Deaf Communities in India, Thailand, Nepal and Bali
- Ability to adapt quickly to regional dialects, other sign languages, finger spellings, and diverse cultural etiquettes
- Some use of International Sign Language (ISL) and American Sign Language (ASL)
- Attendance at the European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters (EFSLI) Conference, gaining international knowledge of the interpreting profession
- Extensive personal travel around Europe, Asia, America and New Zealand
- Filming bilingual BSL/English travel vlogs around the world promoting travel inspiration and cultural exchange
Reviews
“My experience of working with Dee as a BSL Interpreter was very positive. Dee is warm and receptive. She was able to handle our very unpredictable and challenging sessions well.”
Olivia Thiessen, Arts and Wellbeing Coordinator
“Dee is friendly, flexible and extremely professional. I have worked with many BSL Interpreters and it is a relationship which is based on trust and mutual respect. Dee and I work together to deliver creative online classes and she would now be my go to choice for future classes.”
Alex McEwan Creative Director Albatross Arts CIC
“Dee is professional and prepared, friendly and polished. We have had consistently good feedback from Deaf attendees at our events and could not rate her more highly.”
Imogen Robertson, Medway Council
“Dee comes highly recommended by a parent of a child with CHARGE syndrome, in the Sense Touchbase South East area. She has experience of interpreting in situations with children who have complex needs, as well as schools and colleges. This experience helps her during informal interpreting situations that require a friendly face to put the clients at ease. She copes well in these challenging communication interactions, made even more difficult by zoom! Dee has a great attitude towards learning and when she asks for feedback, thinks about things for herself and evidences by putting good advice into action.”
Melanie Brown, Registered Sign Language Interpreter
”My experience of Dee’s interpreting service has always been outstanding. She always ensures that I understand the information clearly when she interprets it to me. In addition, she is very good at meeting my communication needs, such as SSE, and the service she has provided to me has always been professional and full of integrity.”
Jake, Deaf University Student
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