Mike Ballinger

Registered Sign Language Interpreter
(Expires: 30/06/2024)
Photo ID Card No: 100471X

Weekdays Evenings Weekends
Contact no 07776233310
Text only No
Email address theballiboy@gmail.com

The information provided below is additional to registration requirements and therefore has not been verified by NRCPD.

Memberships

Organisation Date joined
Association of Sign Language Interpreters (ASLI) 14/06/2000
Visual Language Professionals (VLP) 01/09/2014

Additional qualifications

Type Qualification Date achieved
Professional BA Hons BSL/English Interpreting (first class) 10/06/2001
Specialist Professional PGDip BSL/English Interpreting 10/06/2003
Specialist Professional ASLI Trained Mentor 01/05/2004

Employments

Start date End date Job title Employer
01/10/2002 17/02/2014 Director / Interpreter Lexicon Signstream Limited
10/02/2013 27/10/2014 Director / interpreter Sign Lingual UK CIC
15/12/2014 Visiting Lecturer, BSL/English Interpreting Degree Course Wolverhampton University
28/10/2014 Freelance BSL/English Interpreter Self employed

Assignments

Education
Schools, e.g. classroom, staff meetings/training, parents' meetings
Adult Education, i.e. 'leisure' courses
SEN tribunals
Further Education
Higher Education and professional
Leisure
Sport indoor
Social events, e.g. wedding reception
Sport outdoor, outdoor pursuits
Mental Health
Clinical meetings
Therapy/treatment
Clinical interviews, e.g. mental state examinations, assessments
Tribunals
Health and Social Services
Physical health, e.g. GPs, hospitals, physio, opticians, dentists, health visitors, ante-natal
Child protection case conferences
Social Services home visits and assessments
Housing
Community consultation meetings
Social Services casework
Theatre, Arts, Television
Television on screen, i.e. front of camera
Theatre/opera performance, musicals, pantomime, comedy, etc
Talks, e.g. gallery, museum
Workshops or training, arts, TV
Deaf cabaret
Legal and Quasijudicial
Solicitors'/barristers' meetings, law centres
Tribunals, e.g. DLA appeals, employment, immigration
Courts, e.g. magistrates, crown, civil
Prison or probation
Police interviews (including customs and immigration)
Memorandum interviews with children and vulnerable adults
Employment
Disciplinary proceedings - employment
Training/professional development
Work support, e.g. telephone interpreting, meetings, correspondence, supervision
Interviews
Other Specialisms
Disabilities, i.e. deaf people with disabilities
Disability politics
Conferences and large meetings
Driving test
Telephone
Video telephony, i.e. remote, distance
Children and young people
Political
Minimal language skills clients
Religion specified, e.g. services, weddings, funerals