Education 1/16 Flashcards
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Interpreting in foreign languages, physics, computer programming, & other classes may require what?
Specialized Training
by Andi
What is the purpose of IDEA?
It is a Federal law that protects the rights of students with Disabilities. It mandates that all students receive free and appropriate education.
(by Lauria)
The role of an interpreter on an IEP team is…?
To ensure that language and communication needs of the student are met, including opportunities for direct communication in the students identified language and communication mode.
(by Lauria)
Under what circumstances might it be appropriate for an interpreter to interpret a test for a student?
It may be appropriate for an interpreter to interpret a test if the goal of the test is to assess content knowledge and not literacy.
(by Lauria)
Who develops the IEP?
The student’s educational team, including a qualified interpreter.
By Jacki
The EIPA Written Test focuses on…
how familiar the interpreter is with IDEA, IEP, laws and regulations governing the school’s management of the education of students with disabilities, testing and assessment of the student, the responsibilities of state and local agencies, and the specific training and experience that makes an interpreter successful.
By Jacki
True or False:
The interpreter is an essential member of the IEP team.
True
By Jacki
According to IDEA, how many times must a student’s IEP be reviewed to meet minimum standards?
Once per year.
By Nicole
True or False:
All members within a classroom, teachers and students should understand the roles and responsibility of the interpreter and how to interact within the interpreted classroom.
True.
By Nicole
True or False:
The classroom teacher has the responsibility for educational planning, teaching and evaluation for all students in the classroom except the Deaf student. That is the responsibility of the interpreter.
False.
The classroom teacher is responsible for all these tasks for every student including the Deaf student or students.
(By Nicole)
The students educational team, along with the interpreter, develops the IEP. Who is apart of the educational team?
The students family, interpreter, teacher, speech pathologist, audiologist, deaf educator, and the student when appropriate.
(by Cameron)
What is the purpose or intent of the LRE?
To allow students to be educated in the most appropriate environment for that student.
(by Cameron)
True or False, When interpreting for a hard of hearing student, it is often the case that the interpreting will be transliterating.
True
by Cameron
What is the one way to ensure that a student has a qualified interpreter?
With the EIPA Written Test. (By Brandon)
What additional support services might an students IEP specify be provided to the student?
Support services might include, but are not limited to: occupational or physical therapy, counseling, Note-taking, tutoring, training in specific technologies, and help learning how to work with an interpreter. (By Brandon)
T/F When interpreting for a hard of hearing student, it is okay for the interpreter to stop interpreting if the student is looking at the teacher instead of the interpreter.
False. (By Brandon)
T/F Professionals working with students are required by law to report any suspicion of student abuse.
True. (By Taryn)
What is a self-contained deaf education classroom?
A classroom within a public school, but only for deaf and hard of hearing students. (By Taryn)
T/F It is not necessary for interpreters to receive additional training for specialized subjects.
False.
Subject such as foreign languages, physics, & Computer programming, interpreters may need specialized training. (By Taryn)
What does LRE stand for? What does it mean?
Least Restrictive Enviornment. Allow the student to be educated in the most appropriate environment for that student. The IEP team should help determine what the most appropriate environment would be. Every student is different.
(Amanda)
A curriculum specifies what a student should learn and the ______________ in which it should be taught.
sequence
Misi
Who has responsibility for behavior management and student safety in a public school?
All adults who work in a public school.
Misi
True or False? Interpreting a lesson does not necessarily make it accessible.
True
Misi
What is SEA stand for? What 4 things does it do.
The State Education Agency. Credentialing teachers, establishing minimal standards for curriculum, requiring annual achievement tests, and establishing minimum standards for educational interpreters (not all states apply)
(Amanda)
What is the biggest problem with most standardized tests?
They are developed and standardized wit hearing students, some items may not be appropriate for deaf and hard of hearing students to reflect their abilities.
(Amanda)
What does the acronym LRE mean?
Least Restrictive Environment
Danielle
Define Bilingual Education
For deaf and hard of hearing students involves ASL as a first language. English is learned through print and not through speech.
(Danielle)
What does the acronym (IDEA) mean?
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Danielle
By law interpreters working with students are required to?
Report suspicion of student abuse
Amanda
As part of the educational team, what are three things must an interpreter know in regards to the student?
Student’s language skills: expressively and receptively; the student’s cognitive potential, and education goals as outlined in student’s IEP.
What is one goal that educational interpreters strive to provide?
An equivalent interpreted product that the student can comprehend.
True or False: Interpreters solely make the decision to modify interpreting a students’ learning.
False. It is the educational team that makes a decision.
What does the acronym SEA stand for?
The State Education Agency.
Alicia
What is simultaneous interpretation?
The philosophy of simultaneous communication is a practice in which a person speaks and signs simultaneously, using some form of English signing.
(Alicia)
What is mainstreaming/inclusion?
Mainstreaming, or inclusion, typically means that a deaf or hard of hearing student receives his or her education within a general education classroom, often with the use of an interpreter.
Deaf Education aims to do what?
Help students acquire language to study in the general curriculum.
(Kat Taylor….also wrote 24, 25 and 26)
What do the achievement tests measure?
A student’s progress in reading, writing and other content subjects.
(Kat)
What measures the cognitive and processing abilities of a student?
Intelligence test.
Kat
If the State Education Agency does not have minimum requirements for educational interpreters who can establish their own minimum requirements?
The Local Education Agency
Melody
Why is there an annual educational and achievement assessment of the student?
Without an assessment it is difficult to know how much progress a student has made.
Melody
What is a major problem of standardized tests making some items inappropriate for students who are deaf or hard of hearing?
The tests have been developed for hearing students and does not reflect the deaf or hard of hearing students underlying abilities.
Melody
The annual comprehensive communication assessment for deaf and hard of hearing students must be conducted in what language?
The language that must be used is the students native language and their desired mode of communication.
Melody
True/False
A major goal of Deaf Education is to help a
student acquire sufficient language skills to participate in the general curriculum.
True.
-Sheena
Who generally agrees that students who are deaf or hard of hearing should be educated in an environment that allows free and open communication?
Deaf adults.
-Sheena
Who makes judgments about language use with deaf and hard of hearing students based on the educational plan and language expressed by the student and by communication with the educational team, with the goal of an interpreting product that is accessible to the student?
Educational interpreters.
-Sheena
Before taking the EIPA written test, interpreters should be comfortable with ___________?
Educational standards used to develop the education portion of the test. (By Emily)
Assessments must be conducted in what?
the students native language and desired mode of communication. (By Emily)
All the members within a classroom, teachers and students, should understand what?
the roles and responsibilities of the interpreter, and how to interact within the interpreted classroom. (By Emily)
T/F A curriculum specifies what a student should learn and the sequence in which it should be taught.
True.
By Jamie
T/F Deaf adults generally agree that students who are Deaf or HH should be educated in an environment that allows free and open communication.
True.
By Jamie
What type of classes would an interpreter need special training for?
Foreign languages, physics, computer programming etc.
By Jamie
T/F: Interpreters working in k-12 are mandatory reporters.
yes. Professionals working with students are required by law to report any suspicion of student abuse.
(Catherine)
A major goal of Deaf Education is to help a student acquire sufficient language skills to participate in the_________.
general curriculum.
Catherine
T/F: Bilingual education for deaf and hard of hearing students involves ASL as a first language. English is learned through print and through speech.
False: NOT through speech.
Catherine
