About your Translator:

Consuelo Gonzalez has been reading lips for over 39 years. She began lip reading translation as a teenager, while accompanying her mother (also deaf and a translator) on hospice visits to patients who were non-vocal. In 1987 Consuelo began offering her skills professionally as a Lip Reading Translator in Seattle-area hospitals.

Over the past 20 years Consuelo has become the go-to expert in her field, consulting and transcribing for law firms, universities, law enforcement agencies, government agencies, private investigation firms, sports analysts, computer animators, media companies, and private citizens from coast to coast, and for English-speaking clients overseas. She continues to translate weekly for non-vocal patients in a respiratory care hospital, and is on-call to translate for the major Seattle-area hospitals and for the King County Superior Court.

Consuelo's professional background includes teaching college-level courses on oral transliterating for lip readers, training professional oral transliterators, and participating in national quality-assurance test evaluations for oral transliteration. Consuelo is an expert in facial expression and "non-verbal support techniques" (body-reading and non-verbal communication), and her extensive background in movement evaluation includes several years of formal training in Laban Movement Analysis.

As a former English and theater major, Consuelo delights in the nuances of language and the clarity of expression possible in both verbal and non-verbal communication. She is very happy to be able to use her skills and talents to translate silence into sound.

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