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Multiple students w/ varying communication styles = multiple terps?

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Multiple students w/ varying communication styles = multiple terps?

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Elizabeth Hanlon
| 9/19/12 @ 09:22 AM

Good morning,

Can anyone point me to Best Practice or anything in the literature that would justify multiple service providers in the same classroom? Scenario:

All day event with multiple students who have varying communication styles, preferences and needs. Some students in class are a native ASL users, raised in residential schools. Others learned to sign as adults, raised in oral programs. Currently the interpreting team is expected to sign PSE as an attempt to "meet in the middle," and students are expected to adjust; this is clearly not successful. Is there precedent for having separate service providers: an interpreting team for the ASL users and a second transliterating team for the more English-like signers?

Of course cost is an issue. Having some kind of documentation would help to justify this need. Due to the nature of the course, speech to text services would not be feasible. Can anyone lend me any support?

Thank you in advance.

- Elizabeth

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Bambi Riehl
| 9/19/12 @ 10:34 AM

Hi Elizabeth,
 
I know this probably exactly what you're looking for, but the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) has a team interpreting Standard Practice Paper at the link below. In essence, in the situation you described, you seem to need a a team, but a team of more than 2 maybe! The SPP mentions the consumer needs as one of the elements for deciding to use a team or not.  If you have tried it one way and it is not resulting in an accessible environment, then the campus is not in compliance with the ADA. 
 
One standard practice at large conferences is to provide teams of interpreters and teams of transliterators, simply acknowleding that it certainly changes the way someone accesses the information. 
 
My campus will indeed send two teams of interpreters if needed to meet students' communication needs. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, we make it happen.
 
Here's the RID link: 
http://www.rid.org/UserFiles/File/pdfs/Standard_Practice_Papers/Drafts_June_2006/Team_Interpreting_SPP.pdf
 
Bambi Riehl
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