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This incisive book explores the current state of educational interpreting and how it is failing deaf students. The contributors, all renowned experts in their field, include former educational interpreters, teachers of deaf students, interpreter trainers, and deaf recipients of interpreted educations. "Educational Interpreting" presents the salient issues in three distinct sections. Part 1 focuses on deaf students--their perspectives on having interpreters in the classroom, the language myths that surround them, the accessibility of language to them, and their cognition. Part 2 raises questions about the support and training that interpreters receive from the school systems, the qualifications that many interpreters bring to an interpreted education, and the accessibility of everyday classrooms for deaf students placed in such environments. Part 3 presents a few of the possible suggestions for addressing the concerns of interpreted educations, and focuses primarily on the interpreter. The contributors discuss the need to (1) define the core knowledge and skills interpreters must have and (2) develop standards of practice and assessment. They also stress that interpreters cannot effect the necessary changes alone; unless and until administrators, parents, teachers, and students recognize the inherent issues of access to education through mediation, little will change for deaf students.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Education Teaching of specific groups & persons with special educational needs

• Full title: Educational Interpreting
• Subtitle: How it Can Succeed
• Author: Winston, A. Elizabeth
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9781563683091
• ISBN: 1563683091
• ID: 04812944
• Publisher: Gallaudet University Press,U.S.
• Weight: 632 g
• Dimensions: 189 × 264 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. February 2005

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