With the student, determine the best seating arrangement for all involved. Interpreters should be prepared to provide the instructor with a short summary of the interpreter's role in a classroom. Every effort should be made to give prompt notification of any anticipated or unanticipated absences to the Disability Services office. If the student is not in class, please wait unobtrusively 15 minutes. If the student arrives late, the interpreter should not provide the information the student missed.
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Avoid prints, stripes and plaids. Showing respect to the student and the instructor serves everyone's best interest. Should an instructor pass you a stack of papers to be disbursed by you, avoid showing aggravation, and simply pass them on to a student to hand out. While it is true that you are not an assistant to the instructor, courtesy demands your handling of the matter in such a way as to not embarrass the student or the instructor. If this happens before class, it is a judgment call made by the interpreter.