Educational Interpreting: How It Can Succeed / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9781563683091 Publisher: Gallaudet University Press Publication date: 02/02/2005 Edition description: First Edition Pages: 240 Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.80(d) 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 stu