Blueprints for Meaning: A Gish-Informed Practice Program

**Blueprints for Meaning: A Gish-Informed Practice Program** is a 1.0 PS CEU **Blueprints for Meaning: A Gish-Informed Practice Program** helps ASL/English interpreters build stronger real-time control by moving from word-chasing to meaning management. Informed by Sandra Gish’s process-management teachings and meaning-first traditions of interpreter education, this practice-based program focuses on what happens inside the interpreter’s process: how we understand the whole message, hold meaning, organize information, make target-language decisions, and recover when the work gets fast, dense, unclear, or overwhelming. The program began as a summer study session created by two Union County College professors for interpreting students, recent graduates, novice interpreters, and seasoned professionals who wanted a structured way to study, discuss, and practice Gish-informed interpreting processes together. What began as a shared study space became a guided handbook for interpreters who want to understand not only what they produce, but how their process works under pressure. Participants explore practical ways to strengthen comprehension, prediction, discourse organization, process time, prioritization, repair, modality adjustment, and self-analysis. The program supports interpreters in building more coherence and control in both ASL and English, especially when managing speed, fingerspelling, numbers, dense content, shifting structures, or performance pressure. This handbook can be used as a 10-week study session, mentor-mentee guide, peer study group resource, independent professional development workbook, or expanded into a 16-week semester course. Recommended for intermediate to advanced learners with functional receptive and expressive skills in ASL and English. No certification required.