Virginia Administrative Code › Title 22 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Agency 20 - DEPARTMENT FOR THE DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING › Chapter 30 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING INTERPRETER SERVICES FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING › Part I - Definitions › Section 22VAC20-30-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
					 shall have the following meanings, unless context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
"ASL" (American Sign Language) means the visual-manual
					 language predominantly used by members of the deaf community.
"Assessment team" refers to the group of individuals who
					 serve on the panel for Virginia Quality Assurance Screenings.
"Candidate" refers to any person who has applied to take
					 the Virginia Quality Assurance Screening.
"Certified interpreter" refers to an advanced level
					 interpreter who holds valid certification issued by the Registry of
					 Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc., or a cued speech transliterator certified by
					 the National Cued Speech Association.
"Closed screening" means a screening which may be offered
					 to a group who has requested a screening for at least eight candidates within
					 that group. Candidates on the waiting list to be screened may not be notified
					 of closed screenings.
"Code of ethics" means the guidelines for interpreters as
					 established by the national Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc., and
					 the Code of Conduct of the National Cued Speech Association TEC Unit.
"Consumer" refers to any individual: deaf, hard of hearing
					 or hearing who is a recipient of interpreter services.
"Coordinator" refers to the Coordinator of the Virginia
					 Quality Assurance Screening in the Department for the Deaf and Hard of
					 Hearing.
"Cued speech" means a phonemically-based system used in
					 conjunction with speech reading, comprised of handshapes representing consonant
					 sounds and positions about the face representing vowel sounds.
"Deaf" refers to any person who has a hearing loss such
					 that with or without amplification is unable to receive information in an
					 auditory fashion and whose primary means of receiving communication is through
					 visual input such as lip reading, sign language, finger spelling, cued speech,
					 reading or writing.
"Department" means the Virginia Department for the Deaf and
					 Hard of Hearing.
"Director" refers to the Director of the Virginia
					 Department for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
"Directory" means the listing of qualified interpreters for
					 the deaf and hard of hearing as compiled by the department.
"Expressive" means to convey a spoken message into a visual
					 equivalent.
"Hard of hearing" refers to any person who has a hearing
					 loss such that hearing is difficult but the understanding of spoken
					 communication through the ear alone, with or without a hearing aid, is not
					 precluded.
"Hearing" refers to any person who is able to comprehend
					 conversational speech without an assistive device.
"Interpret" means to accurately convey messages without
					 personal interjection between two or more parties using two languages.
"Interpreter" refers to any person who facilitates
					 communication between two or more parties using different languages or
					 different forms of the same language and refers to sign language
					 interpreter/transliterators and oral and cued speech transliterators. When the
					 term is used to specifically identify an interpreter who interprets using ASL,
					 this text will so indicate.
"Interpreting (ASL)" means the specific process of
					 interpreting ASL vocabulary, structure, and grammatical components and does not
					 include oral or cued speech transliterating or forms of manual communication
					 using an English-based structure. The term is used specifically herein when
					 discussing components of the VQAS assessment process.
"Manually-coded English" means any form of manual
					 communication which utilizes specified handshapes to represent English
					 syntax.
"National Cued Speech Association" (NCSA) means the
					 national training, evaluation, and certification unit of cued speech
					 transliterators.
"Oral" means a communication mode which is dependent upon
					 speech reading and spoken communication.
"Panel" refers to the people selected to serve on an
					 assessment team of the Virginia Quality Assurance Screening.
"Panelist" refers to any person who has satisfied the
					 requirements for serving as a member of the assessment team for quality
					 assurance screenings during live panel rating sessions.
"Qualified interpreter" refers to an interpreter who
					 currently holds at least one of the following credentials:
1. Certification from any national
				  organization whose certification process has been recognized by the Department
				  for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing; or
2. A current screening level awarded by the
				  Virginia Quality Assurance Screening Program of the Department for the Deaf and
				  Hard of Hearing; or
3. A screening
				  level or recognized evaluation from any other state when (i) the credentials
				  meet the minimum requirements of Virginia Quality Assurance Screening and (ii)
				  the credentials are valid and current in the state issued.
"Rater" refers to any person who has satisfied the
					 requirements for serving as a member of the assessment team for rating
					 videotapes of candidates who participate in the Virginia Quality Assurance
					 Screening.
"Receptive" means to convey a visual message into a spoken
					 equivalent.
"RID" (Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc.) means
					 the national membership organization of the interpreting profession.
"Screening" means the Virginia Quality Assurance
					 Screening.
"Screening level" means the level of competency awarded to
					 an interpreter who has successfully satisfied the minimum standards established
					 for VQAS.
"Service provider" refers to the person requesting
					 interpreter services who may or may not also be the consumer.
"Transliterate" means to accurately convey messages without
					 personal interjection between two or more parties using different forms of the
					 same language, such as written or spoken English and a manually-coded form of
					 English or cued speech.
"VQAS" means Virginia Quality Assurance Screening, which is
					 designed to assess interpreting and transliterating skills of interpreters who
					 facilitate communication between persons who are deaf or hard of hearing and
					 persons who are hearing, and is administered by the Virginia Department for the
					 Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
Statutory Authority
§§ 51.5-112 and 51.5-113 of the Code of
						Virginia.