GraciasVRS and Asl Services, Inc were proud sponsors of TERPEXPO in Denver Colorado.

Angela Roth, President and CEO of both companies presented a ground breaking conference titled “Cultural Misunderstandings between Latinos and Non-Latinos”. Also with her, was Professor Sergio Peña, from Tijuana, Mexico presented a linguistically oriented conference titled “English-Spanish, Using False and Real Cognates”.

All of this is part of a Trilingual Track recently introduced as part of the TERPEXPO offerings. Thanks to everyone that came out and joined us for a wonderful experience of understanding and acceptance of the diversity that the hispanic community has to offer.

GraciasVRS Always with you!!

ASL Services, Inc., providing interpretation services with Excellence, Experience and Expertise since 1988.

FRID 2009 Conference was held on October 22nd-25th at the Florida Mall Hotel in Orlando, Florida. The theme of the Conference was “Collaboration Promotes Community”.

As a sister company of GraciasVRS, ASL Services, Inc was proud to support the 2009 FRID Conference both as an exhibitor, a silent auction participant and as a banquet sponsor. In addition, we were happy to work hard with our scheduling team to allow many of our Employees to have the time off to attend. ASL Services, Inc was also happy to sponsor 2 FRID Registrations for one of our employees, Chris Cupples, and 2009 Fall Intern Brynn.

At the exhibit tables, you had a chance to spin our wheel and win TICKETS! We had a great team at our exhibit booth who were positive, energetic and made the attendees have a fantastic conference by giving away tickets, food and the coveted Happy Face pens! J

At the banquet, Gabrielle Joseph and Vannessa Mistelske represented the company to draw the winners of the Ticket Contest. The winners EACH received a 2010 FRID MEMBERSHIP Paid for on behalf of ASL Services, Inc and also won gas cards and gift certificates to Bath and Body Works and Barnes and Nobles.

With an exciting announcement, the team from ASL Services, Inc also surprised the entire audience with a going away gift from the 2009 FRID Conference: 1 black Pocket Jotter with Pen for every person in attendance. Hidden in one of the jotters was the GRAND PRIZE winning GOLDEN TICKET which gifted the recipient with a $500.00 of Gift Certificates to be used at Old Navy, GAP or Banana Republic!!!

Finally, to top off the evening, the silent auction raffle prize that was donated by ASL Services, Inc was finally won: 32” LCD TV!

The night concluded with a Fantastic presentation by Alan Abarbanell. We would like to thank all participants who supported the 2009 FRID Conference and look forward to future opportunities to support!

GraciasVRS is Proud to sponsor the 1st Tri-Lingual Track for the TERPExpo series of conferences!

The TERPExpo Conference is being held Friday, November 6th –Sunday, November 8th in Denver, Colorado and is attracting a bigger and bigger pool of interpreters each year. The level of expertise inside workshops presented within the Tri-Lingual Track is unparalleled.

The Tri-Lingual track will be from 8am-6pm on FRIDAY and will have workshops throughout the day given by an innovative team of presenters: Angela M. Roth, Sergio Pena and Jose Bertran. These 3 workshops have presented all over the world and are honored to be part of the 1st all day Tri-lingual Track at the TERP Expo Conferences.

Go to www.terpexpo.org to get more information about upcoming dates/cities that the Tri-Lingual Track will be presented at!

RID 2009 National Convention was held on August 1st- August 6th in Philadelphia, PA. The theme of the Conference was “Embrace Change- Honor Tradition”.

Staying true to the theme, RID welcomed a host of sponsors and presenters who certainly brought their knowledge and experience to the forefront of the Interpreting Community.

GraciasVRS and ASL Services, Inc were very proud to sponsor events throughout the Convention. GraciasVRS contributed greatly towards the success of the 10 year Anniversary Conference of Mano A Mano and ASL Services, Inc had a hard working team at the exhibit tables where each person had a chance to spin our Wheel for fantastic prizes.

Both companies are looking forward to supporting Professional Development of Interpreters as the 2011 RID National Conference which will be held in Atlanta, Georgia.