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Becoming A Sign Language Interpreter

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Resources on Educational Interpreting

The role of a classroom interpreter, also called an educational interpreter, is challenging. An educational interpreter provides facilitation of communication between deaf students and other non-signing members of the school community, including teachers and hearing classmates. The interpreter listens to, understands, and translates what the teacher is communicating to the students in a manner that the students understand.

We offer this list of resources as a way to help identify what has already been done to assist groups beginning the process of developing guidelines and standards for educational interpreters.

These are resources we have identified to date. We encourage readers to send us names of any other resources so that we may verify them and add them to this list. E-mail us at clearinghouse.infotogo@gallaudet.edu.

Articles:

1. Odyssey Magazine
Winter-Spring 2001
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Odyssey/Winter-Spring2001/index.html

• Visual Inaccessibility
  The Elephant (Blocking the View) in Interpreted Education
  By Elizabeth A. Winston
• Interpreting for Children
  How it's different
  By Brenda Schick
• The Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment
  By Brenda Schick, Kevin Williams
• Interpreting in Schools
  A look at research
  By Thomas N. Kluwin, David A. Stewart
• Beneath The Surface
  Theoretical Frameworks Shed Light on Educational Interpreting
  By Claire Ramsey
• Deaf Education Specialist
  Teaches-and Learns-in Alaskan Outback
  By Patrick Pillai
• Question & Answer
  How Can I Evaluate My Child's Interpreter?
  By Cheryl Lee

2. Interpreting in Educational Settings (K-12)
Standard Practice Paper

This standard practice paper provides points on the fundamental role of an educational interpreter, responsibilities, maximum effectiveness, and points on what can reduce the interpreters effectiveness. This paper is also available in brochure format through the national office.

Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
333 Commerce Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703/838-0030 Voice
703/838-0459 TTY
703/838-0454 FAX
Web site: http://www.rid.org/

3. Interpreting for Postsecondary Deaf Students: a Report of the National Task Force on Quality of Services in the Postsecondary Education of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students. Rochester, N.Y.:
Northeast Technical Assistance Center, Rochester Institute of Technology
1999 Gary Sanderson, Linda Siple, Bea Lyons
Web site: http://www.netac.rit.edu/publication/taskforce/interpreting/interpreting.html

Rochester Institute of Technology
National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Northeast Technical Assistance Center
52 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623-5604
716/475-6433 V/TTY
716/475-7660 FAX

State-by-State Resources:

State by State Resources and Requirements for their Educational Interpreters
VRID
Virginia affiliate chapter of RID
Web site: http://www.vrid.org/legis/states.html

Table of State Laws and Regulations on Requirements of Interpreters
National Association of the Deaf
Web site: http://www.nad.org/infocenter/infotogo/asl/InterpStateLaws.html

Interpreter Training Programs
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
Web site: http://www.rid.org