Texas Administrative Code › Title 26 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES › Part 1 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION › Chapter 360 - OFFICE OF DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING SERVICES › Subchapter A - GENERAL RULES › Section 360.105 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
					 have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise.
(1) Americans with
				  Disabilities Act (ADA)--A public law that provides a clear and comprehensive
				  national mandate for eliminating discrimination against people with
				  disabilities and that provides enforceable standards addressing discrimination
				  against people with disabilities.
(2) BEI--The Board for Evaluation of
				  Interpreters.
(3) BEI
				  Certificate--The certificate awarded by DARS to an applicant who has passed
				  designated written and performance tests; the certificate verifies that the
				  person has skills to perform interpreting and transliterating, both
				  expressively and receptively, and specifies the skill level at which the person
				  can perform.
(4) Certified court
				  interpreter--A person who is a qualified interpreter as defined in the Code of
				  Criminal Procedure, Article 38.31, or the Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
				  §
										21.003 or who is
				  certified under Subchapter B of this chapter (relating to Board for Evaluation
				  of Interpreters) by DARS to interpret court proceedings for a person who is
				  deaf or hard of hearing.
(5)
				  Certified interpreter--A person who holds a valid certificate awarded by DARS
				  or RID. A RID-certified interpreter does not include a certified interpreter
				  awarded through membership.
(6)
				  Certified medical interpreter--A person who is certified under Subchapter B of
				  this chapter by DARS to interpret in medical settings for persons who are deaf
				  or hard of hearing.
(7) Certified
				  trilingual interpreter--A person certified under Subchapter B of this chapter
				  as meeting the proficiency standards established by DARS to facilitate
				  communication both expressively and receptively in English, sign, and
				  Spanish.
(8) DARS--The Department
				  of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services.
(9) DHHS--The Office for Deaf and Hard of
				  Hearing Services, Division for Rehabilitation Services, DARS.
(10) Director--The director of the Office for
				  Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services.
(11) Intermediary interpreter--A person who
				  is deaf or hard of hearing, who has passed an interpreter skills evaluation and
				  is certified by DARS or RID, and who is proficient at facilitating
				  communication both linguistically and culturally for a person who is deaf or
				  deafblind.
(12) Interpretation--The
				  process of conveying a message both expressively and receptively from
				  verbal/written language to sign or from sign to verbal/written
				  language.
(13) Interpreter or
				  qualified interpreter--A person who is able to interpret effectively,
				  accurately, and impartially both receptively and expressively, using any
				  necessary specialized vocabulary.
(14) Prerequisite certificate--The valid
				  certificate required by DHHS that makes a person eligible to apply for a
				  specialized certificate issued by DARS or to apply for a BEI advanced
				  performance test.
(15) Provisional
				  certificate--The certificate awarded by DARS to an applicant currently
				  certified in another jurisdiction who seeks a certificate in Texas.
(16) RID--Registry of Interpreters for the
				  Deaf, Inc., a national organization of interpreters that provides interpreter
				  certification.
(17) Specialty
				  certificate--A trilingual certificate or court certificate awarded by
				  DARS.
(18) Transliteration--The
				  process of conveying a message either from spoken language into a manually
				  coded language or from manually coded language into a spoken
				  language.