Michigan Administrative Code › Department - Civil Rights › Civil Rights Commission › Qualified Interpreter - General Rules › Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section R. 393.5003 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 24-12, July 15, 2024
Rule 2. Terms used in these rules are defined as follows:
(a) "Act" means the deaf persons interpreters act, 1982 PA 204, MCL 393.501 to 393.509.
(b) "CEU cycle" means a 4-year period of time in which continuing education units are earned.
(c) "CEU" means a continuing education unit.
(d) "Complainant" means a person or entity who has filed a grievance with the division alleging that a person has violated the act or a rule promulgated under the act.
(e) "Council" means the advisory council on deaf and hard of hearing established under MCL 408.205.
(f) "Credential card" means an interpreter card, carrying the great seal of Michigan, issued by the division that verifies that an interpreter is a qualified interpreter within this state for a specific time period. The division may issue a credential card that incorporates a photograph.
(g) "D/DB/HH" means a deaf, deafblind and/or hard of hearing person and includes any person for whom an interpreter is required as an accommodation under state or federal law.
(h) "Deaf Interpreter" or "DI" means a deaf or hard of hearing person who holds a division recognized certification and interpreter training and/or experience in the use of gestures, mime, props, drawings, and other tools to enhance communication, as well as knowledge and understanding of deafness, the deaf community, and the deaf culture. The DI possesses native or near-native fluency in American Sign Language. The DI facilitates communication between a person using sign language and a deafblind person or between a qualified interpreter and D/DB/HH person when the communication between the qualified interpreter and the D/DB/HH person is not effective.
(i) "Director" means the director of the division on deaf and hard of hearing or his or her designee.
(j) "Division" means the division on deaf and hard of hearing in the Michigan department of civil rights.
(k) "Division recognized certification" means a certificate that the division will accept that indicates the person has passed an evaluation of his or her interpreting skills.
(l) "Effective communication" means that all involved parties understand each other for the exchange of visual and audio information about ideas, attitudes, emotions, or behavior that occurs between 2 or more persons, through a common system of language that is equally and fully understood by a deaf, deafblind, or hard of hearing person (D/DB/HH) and hearing persons. The interpreter must possess sign language to English - English to sign language skills and necessary vocabulary for the situation so that all parties have access to the same information.
(m) "Exception" means a written agreement between the division and an appointing authority, including, but not necessarily limited to, an educational program as described in R 393.5027(3), in which the appointing authority describes and attests to its efforts to provide a qualified interpreter, and in which the appointing authority asserts and the division agrees that the unfeasibility of doing so necessitates a variance from these rules.
(n) "EIPA" or "educational interpreter performance assessment" means a credential granted under the EIPA interpreter testing system that assesses the proficiency of interpreters in elementary and secondary educational environments.
(o) "Formal complaint" means a document that states the charges of each alleged violation and is prepared by the division after a complaint has been received.
(p) "Interpreter" means a person who engages in the practice of interpreting and meets the definition of MCL 393.502(h).
(q) "Interpreting" means the process of listening, watching, understanding, and analyzing signed, spoken, written word, facial expressions, and lip movements from a source language and re-expressing that message faithfully, accurately, and objectively in a target language, taking the social and cultural context into account. In the context of these rules "interpreting" generally involves signing to a D/DB/HH person what is being voiced by a hearing person, and voicing to a hearing person what is being signed by a D/DB/HH person.
(r) "Listed" or "listing" means full name, address, type of certification, expiration, and disciplinary actions appearing in the division interpreter database.
(s) "MI-BEI certification" means an interpreter certificate granted under the MI-BEI interpreter testing system.
(t) "Michigan BEI" or "MI-BEI" means the Michigan board for evaluation of interpreters test, which this state leases from the state of Texas to evaluate interpreters in this state.
(u) "NAD" means national association of the deaf.
(v) "National certification" means 1 of the following certificates recognized by the registry of interpreters for the deaf (RID) that assesses interpreter skills:
(i) RID CDI means certified deaf interpreter.
(ii) RID CI means certificate of interpretation.
(iii) RID CLIP-R means conditional legal interpreting permit-relay.
(iv) RID CSC means comprehensive skills certificate.
(v) RID CT means certificate of transliteration.
(vi) RID Ed: K-12 means educational certificate: k-12.
(vii) RID IC means interpretation certificate.
(viii) RID MCSC means master comprehensive skills certificate.
(ix) NAD III or IV or V means national association of the deaf certificate under RID.
(x) RID NIC means national interpreter certification (e.g., NIC, NIC Advanced, and NIC Master).
(xi) RID OTC means oral transliteration certificate.
(xii) RID RSC means reverse skills certificate.
(xiii) RID SC:L means specialist certificate: legal.
(xiv) RID TC means transliteration certificate.