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A term often used to refer to signing that occurs when deaf people & people who are not deaf interact. It uses ASL vocabulary in English word order. Also sometimes referred to as contact signing.

PSE

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A standardized mental picture that is held in common by members of a group & that represents an over simplified opinion, affective attitude, or uncritical judgement.

Stereotype

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An interpreter must be provided if a non-native English speaker is involved in court, not disability legislation, witness testimony must be consecutive.

Court Interpreters Act of 1978

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This model views Deaf individuals as part of the larger handicapped population seeking inclusion in the mainstream.

Communication Facilitation Model

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The systematic exclusion of minority group members from quality social services, economic opportunities, health care, & meaningful education, the absence of power or “voice”.

Marginalization

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The national professional association & certifying body of sign language interpreters of Canada.

Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada

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All private & public places must comply except if the entity has less than 15 employees or can prove undue hardship.

ADA

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The time it takes to make a mental search for meaning is known as?

Processing Time

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Refers to a statement in which the person or thing performing the action is not overtly stated.

Passive Voice

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Adept at modifying predictions as needed & to use emerging a contextual information to analyze how context is influencing message delivery.

Contextual Factors

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Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975; schools must accept all kids, all worthy of an Ed, all disabilities accepted despite severity; started mainstreaming frenzy.

PL 94-142

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To successfully earn the Comprehensive Skills Certificate (CSC) interpreters needed what percentage of accuracy?

75%

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Certified Interpreters participate in the …

CMP - Certification Maintenance Program

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When an interpretation is successful this is maintained?

Dynamic Equivalence

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Bilingual finesse, including the mastery of a wide range of lexico , register, & discourse formulation?

Linguistic Competence

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This register refers to the type of language used when one speaker addresses a fairly large group of listeners with virtually no turn-taking or linguistic interaction between the speaker and the audience?

Formal Register

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The unjust or excessive exercise of power or position that hurts, maligns, or disempowers others?

Oppression

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What is the new name for the first school for the Deaf?

American School for the Deaf

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This law made VR funds available to pay for interpreters:

Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1965

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The use of socially acceptable terms & phrases in place of blunt descriptive ones:

Euphemistic Language

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A unit for expressing the relative intensity of sounds on a scale from 0 for the average least perceptible sound to about 130 for the average level where sound induces pain.

Decibels

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This term is not used I not used in the field of spoken language interpretation , only in the field of sign language interpreting.

Transliteration

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The language into which the original message is interpreted?

Target Language

Interpreting from a spoken language into a signed language:

Voice to sign

PSE stands for?

Pidgin Signed English

What is an LTA?

Local Test Administrator

The professional certificate awarded by AVLIC to individuals who successfully complete both a knowledge & skills assessment:

Certificate of Interpreting

In ASL the primary grammatical structure is:

Subj - verb - obj

This law assumes mainstreaming & parents are responsible to prove mainstreaming is not LRE & often lose:

LRE

The pre-judging of others based on assumptions that do not reflect reality or truth:

Stereotyping

An attitude that one's own race or culture is superior to all others?

Ethnocentric

If an interpreter has their IC they have?

Interpreting Certificate

LRE is also known as?

Least Restrictive Environment

This is a system in which each word is fingerspelled with the exception of the word "and", which is signed.

Rochester Method

When this register is used one of the individuals involved in the interaction has "expert" status or an enhanced command of the topic at hand, yet there is a desire to interact with the listener or audience to confirm communication has taken place?

Consultative Register

If receiving government funding (ie: state schools, etc) the entity must provide accessibility & accommodations for all disabilities. (This covers students, parents, & school personnel.)

Rehabilitation Act of 1965

The OIC:C stands for what certification?

Oral Interpreter Certificate: Comprehensive

Before the CT there was the TC:

Transliteration Certificate

The attitude based on pathological thinking resulting in a negative stigma toward anyone who does not hear:

Audism

The degrees of imprecision in communication:

Abstract Language

The acronym CSC stands for:

Comprehensive Skills Certificate

Includes a belief of Deaf people as handicapped & needing to learn to take care of themselves; word-for-word sign equivalents between signs & spoken English; & the interpreter as having no responsibility for the interaction or communication dynamics:

Model Conduit or Machine Philosophy

Originally from another language but adopted & accepted for standard signing use, also known as a Loan Sign:

Lexical Borrowing

Biological factors that interfere with communication, ie: illness, exhaustion, hunger?

Physiological Noise

Metaphors that rely on spatial info?

Orientation Metaphors

Interpreting via touch, from or into a spoken or signed language?

Tactile Interpreting

An extension of the use of a word or sign beyond its primary meaning?

Metaphor

Two different languages blended in which elements of both are present?

Pidgin

When minority group members being dependent upon members of the power group for certain things they perceive they are unable to do for themselves?

Dependence on the Benefactors

RID's code or ethics & behaviors for interpreters?

Code of Professional Conduct

A coding system in which initialized signs are used heavily & conceptually accurate signs for English Compound words are used?

Signing Exact English (SEE2)

The feelings associated with a word.

Connotation

SPP stands for?

Standard Practice Papers

To be born deaf or hard-of-hearing:

Congenital Deafness

The conscious or unconscious movement from ASL into English like signing or from English like signing to ASL:

Code Switching

Metaphors that treat abstract entities, states, & events as though they were objects (ie: climbing out of debt)

Ontological Metaphors

Realities that exist in the heads of all participants in the communication environment & distract from or interferes with the communication; including things like internal stress, personal judgements about the other participants, & random thoughts.

Psychological Noise