Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment

[loml]

FYI

Over the last few decades, educational services for children with hearing loss have changed substantially. Historically, most deaf and hard-of-hearing children in the United States were educated in residential programs, but since Public Law 94-142 was passed in 1975, these children have moved in large numbers to local public schools (Moores, 1992). As a result, it is estimated that more than 80% of K-12 students with hearing loss are now educated in the public school setting, and the majority of these students spend at least 40% of their day in regular classrooms alongside hearing students (U.S. Department of Education, 1999). This change has not only brought about an increased need for educational interpreters but also stimulated the development of tools to evaluate their performance. At the national level, the most notable development has been the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment (EIPA; Schick & Williams, 1992).

Toward Extending the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment to Cued Speech -- Krause et al. 13 (3): 432 -- The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

 

[ovrsa]

from South Africa

Hi there
Was very interested to read your post. i am currently reading for my Masters Degree in linguistics focussing on the Role of South AFrican Sign Language interpreters in post-secondary settings. My focus is not so much on the quality of te interpreting per se but what is it that the interpreter does. I hope to be able to define the SASL interpreter's role as a foundation for further research into how we get some uniform standards for this area of interpreting. ANy further iput, articles, forums etc you could recommend would be hugely appreciated!!!! Thanks

 

[Interpretrator]

Hi there
Was very interested to read your post. i am currently reading for my Masters Degree in linguistics focussing on the Role of South AFrican Sign Language interpreters in post-secondary settings. My focus is not so much on the quality of te interpreting per se but what is it that the interpreter does. I hope to be able to define the SASL interpreter's role as a foundation for further research into how we get some uniform standards for this area of interpreting. ANy further iput, articles, forums etc you could recommend would be hugely appreciated!!!! Thanks

I'm sorry to say I think you're asking the wrong person.

I have been an ASL interpreter in post-secondary settings so I don't know if I can help with your SASL project, but I'd be happy to answer any questions I can. I would recommend starting a new thread in this section as this one is about Cued Speech and you will probably get more answers in a new thread.