chipmunkis
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I am curious as to how you got a job for an D/B intervenor if you don't know ASL? I hope Mrs Bucket sees this and lets us know the standards for woriking in Canada.
I do know ASL...but not at an Interpreter level! There is a big difference, here at least, between an Interpreter and an Intervenor... I work, under normal circumstances, with much younger students who are not in a regular academic program, and who often have additional issues aside from their deafblindness, and who may or may not be fully deaf or fully blind. Many of the students I work with are just learning that they can communicate with others. They use a number of different methods of communication, including PICs, sign language (which may or may not be ASL, depending on their abilities), tactile sign, etc.