Any faculty, staff, alumni or emeritus faculty and staff may nominate an alum. NCOD Information CSUN's National Center on Deafness provides the following Q. and A. for university faculty and staff members to better serve the university's deaf and hard of hearing students. The deaf student may prefer to speak in class or may instead choose to have the interpreter voice what he or she signs. If either cannot be understood or heard, please say so. Faculty members should feel free to ask the student to repeat or clarify anything.
Interpreters process information before relaying it in sign language.
As a result, they are often as much as 30 seconds behind. Under no circumstances are service providers ever to directly participate in class. Even if the service provider may have worked with the faculty member before, he or she is not permitted to interject personal opinions or to participate in group discussions. Service providers must focus on their jobs, which are limited to facilitating communication among class participants. Service providers will directly interject in class discussion only to ask questions or for clarification as it directly relates to their task.