coolgirlspyer90
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Your parents can ask if she is certified, and she must reply. If she says that she is, then she must prove it by showing you the certification.
She has a bachelor's degree in interpreting? Amazing. She certainly isn't behaving as though she was an educated terp.
Unsat. Sometimes school terps recommend sub terps but the bottom line is the school is responsible for providing you with interpreting services.
Either your teachers don't know what good interpreting is all about or they don't care enough to make waves. That's very disappointing.
I'm sorry that you're having such a struggle. I'm afraid that your parents are going to have to fight for your services this summer, even to the extent of taking legal recourse.
Also, I would say that your school terp does NOT work with you. It sounds like she's working against you.
Even with certification and a degree it doesn't seem like she's in a field that she enjoys or is qualified for. That is such a shame.
Certification is not a guarantee that you'll get a qualified terp but it does provide you recourse for complaints.
Now's the time to learn how to assert your rights for quality interpreters. If you continue on to college and require a terp for those classes you will be experienced in getting what you need.
I have been doing my research on my own about what i can do as a deaf person to fight for my own deaf civil rights. both of my parents believe that when i have another IEP meeting, I should stand up and tell them what i need because I am a deaf person and I should teach them a thing or two about what I really need. But If i do that, i feel like i'm going to get into trouble for standing up for myself. I have never stand up for myself. I'll be turning 17 this year, and soon i'll be 18 which i will be considered as an adult. I've been keeping a notebook filled with NAD stuff, and hoping to use it in one of my IEP meetings or any other meetings we might have in the summer. My interpreter has also taken alot of days off. Some days I don't have a sub-interpreter and some days I do. But its very rare that i do have a sub-interpreter. My mother called the school one day after i texted her that i didn't have a sub-interpreter. My mom called to complain and the school was searching for a sub-interpreter for me until almost towards the end of the day i finally had a sub interpreter, which was probably a waste of my day because i had a hard time understanding stuff. I have almost failed history and biology this year because my interpreter has NOT signed at all, just basically told me her personal life, talking behind my friends back, being the dictator to me and to my classmates, and not having a sub-interpreter when i had the FM system to rely on. When i have no interpreter, my friends who know some sign, signed to me about whats going on in the class. My best friend's mom was a signing teacher and taught my friend to sign, she is also in the band with me, so she basically signs with me everyday. I'm thankful that i have alot of friends who knows sign in my school to help me, but i am disappointed in my interpreter and the school.