Alabama Administrative Code › Title 580 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH › Chapter 580-3-24 - CERTIFICATION OF MENTAL HEALTH INTERPRETERS FOR PERSONS WHO ARE DEAF › Section 580-3-24-.02 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) "Awareness,"
			 goes beyond familiarity in that it also includes beginning to internalize the
			 information regarding a field and to have begun thinking through how it affects
			 one's professional and personal behavior although it does not necessarily
			 include having resolved issues raised.
(2) "Communication assistance," is a process
			 whereby someone who is trained to work with people who are deaf and have
			 minimal language skills, by teaches ing and enhancesing visual gestural
			 communication skills in those people in order to enable themthose people to
			 better function in a given setting.
(3) "Consecutive interpreting," means the
			 interpreter will produce the target interpretation sequentially with the source
			 language speaker. The source language speaker will speak a sentence or a
			 thought and pause while the interpretation is made and then will speak the next
			 sentence or phrase.
(4) "Exposure,"
			 is having some knowledge of a field's existence and its place in the setting
			 and, possibly, some of the vocabulary used in the field.
(5) "Demonstration" (or "compliance")," is
			 showing the skill has been learned and is incorporated into the interpreter's
			 practice.
(6) "Familiarity," is
			 having actual experience with a field and/or practitioners in that
			 field.
(7) "Interpreting," is the
			 process of taking a spoken message from one language and producing an
			 equivalent rendition in another spoken language.
(8) "Limited English Proficient," are those
			 individuals who cannot speak, hear, read, write, or understand the English
			 language at a level that permits them to interact effectively with DMH/MR
			 employeesfacilities, providers and contractors. People who are deaf or hard of
			 hearing and who prefer to use American Sign Language or its derivatives are
			 considered Limited English Proficient for the purposes of this rule.
(9) "Narrative interpreting," is when there
			 is no direct or easy interpretation of the source language into the target
			 language or the source language is sufficiently dysfluent or arcane as to
			 render interpretation impossible. Narrative interpretation can occur
			 simultaneously or consecutively.
(10) "Qualified Mental Health Interpreter" is
			 an interpreter who holds certification by the Office of Deaf Services attesting
			 to successful completion of training and examination outlined in this
			 rule.
(11) "Simultaneous
			 interpreting," means interpreting into the target language at the same time the
			 source language is being spoken.
(12) "Source language," is the language that
			 is being interpreted from.
(13)
			 "Target language," is the language that is being interpreted to.
(14) "Translation," is the process of taking
			 a written message in one language and producing an equivalent written version
			 in another.
(15) "Understanding,"
			 is having sufficient knowledge of a field to be able to explain the discipline,
			 including its limits and its relationship to other disciplines.
Author:
DMH/MR Office of Deaf
				Services
Statutory Authority:
Code of Ala.
				  1975
, §
										22-50-11.