The purpose of this course is to prepare the student for educational interpreting. Skills in tutoring and note taking, as well as interpreting, will be covered. The student will have the opportunity to increase technical sign vocabulary. This course provides an opportunity to build skills in interpreting and transliterating into spoken English from ASL and various contact varieties. This course builds a foundation of skills for transliterating from spoken English to signed English.
Emphasis is placed on the development of consistency and accuracy in transliterating.
This course provides field experience interpreting in a supervised educational community, service agency or other setting.