ITP - Sign Language Interpretation Outcomes
AAS: Sign Language Interpretation
- Language and Cultural Competencies: Upon completion of the Sign Language Interpretation Program, Students will be able to:
- Act with respect, knowledge and understanding of Deaf people and ASL, with an appreciation for their linguistic and cultural diversity, values and social customs.
- Use American Sign Language (ASL) with grammatically correct sentence structure, finger spelling, numbering systems, classifiers, and non-manual behavior, using appropriate transitions, conversational repair and cohesive features.
- Use ASL for descriptive, expository, dialogue, hortatory, procedural and narrative discourse at conversational and academic levels.
- Apply language observation and learning skills outside the classroom.
- Describe ASL from an analytical-theoretic perspective, including comparing/contrasting it with English and demonstrating its validity as a language.
- Demonstrate understanding of Deaf people from diverse backgrounds, including differences in language use, communication modes, age, gender and ethnic identity.
- Identify their own cultural values and social customs and compare/contrast them with those of the Deaf community in the United States and with other cultural groups.
- Describe Deaf literature, art and folklore and the importance of preserving them.
- Demonstrate understanding of the implications of cultural differences such as collectivism and individualism; high and low context; time orientation; polychronic and monochronic orientation; and differences in reasoning and rhetoric.
- Interpreting Competencies: Upon completion of the Sign Language Interpretation Program, Students will be able to:
- Work as a member of a team of interpreters.
- Describe the interpreting process and their internal experience of it.
- Interpret while standing or seated in front of an audience.
- Perform a self-assessment of their own interpretation and set goals for improvement.
- Prepare for an interpreting assignment.
- Apply techniques for managing the interpreting process.
- Determining consumers' language use.
- Provide grammatically correct, congruent and comprehensive sign-to-voice and voice-to-sign interpretation with a minimum of 70% accuracy, as determined by successful performance on a Qualifying Exam prior to entering internship and successful completion of a supervised internship.
- Apply the RID Code of Ethics to situations involving both adults and children.
- Behave in a professional manner, using professional communication strategies.
- Describe the history of sign language interpretation as a profession.
- Demonstrate understanding of the business aspects of interpreting.
- Describe the current national evaluation and certification process for interpreters.
- Describe and communicate to others the appropriate role of an interpreter.
- Describe ways interpreters function in specific settings and with specific populations.
- Apply techniques of text analysis to determine the effects of context, audience, venue, time, circumstances, speaker, genre, issues and setting on the interpreting process, to anticipate content, to determine main and supporting points of a text, and to make appropriate target language choices.
- Describe issues that are currently relevant to the field of interpreting and to the Deaf community.
- Demonstrate understanding of the need for continuing education as a professional interpreter and of opportunities for such continuing education in the community.
- Reflect on, write about and discuss their experiences in a non-judgmental manner, keeping all identifying information confidential.
Two-Year Certificate: Sign Language Interpretation
- Language and Cultural Competencies: Upon completion of the Sign Language Interpretation Program, Students will be able to:
- Act with respect, knowledge and understanding of Deaf people and ASL, with an appreciation for their linguistic and cultural diversity, values and social customs.
- Use American Sign Language (ASL) with grammatically correct sentence structure, finger spelling, numbering systems, classifiers, and non-manual behavior, using appropriate transitions, conversational repair and cohesive features.
- Use ASL for descriptive, expository, dialogue, hortatory, procedural and narrative discourse at conversational and academic levels.
- Apply language observation and learning skills outside the classroom.
- Describe ASL from an analytical-theoretic perspective, including comparing/contrasting it with English and demonstrating its validity as a language.
- Demonstrate understanding of Deaf people from diverse backgrounds, including differences in language use, communication modes, age, gender and ethnic identity.
- Identify their own cultural values and social customs and compare/contrast them with those of the Deaf community in the United States and with other cultural groups.
- Describe Deaf literature, art and folklore and the importance of preserving them.
- Demonstrate understanding of the implications of cultural differences such as collectivism and individualism; high and low context; time orientation; polychronic and monochronic orientation; and differences in reasoning and rhetoric.
- Interpreting Competencies: Upon completion of the Sign Language Interpretation Program, Students will be able to:
- Work as a member of a team of interpreters.
- Describe the interpreting process and their internal experience of it.
- Interpret while standing or seated in front of an audience.
- Perform a self-assessment of their own interpretation and set goals for improvement.
- Prepare for an interpreting assignment.
- Apply techniques for managing the interpreting process.
- Determining consumers' language use.
- Provide grammatically correct, congruent and comprehensive sign-to-voice and voice-to-sign interpretation with a minimum of 70% accuracy, as determined by successful performance on a Qualifying Exam prior to entering internship and successful completion of a supervised internship.
- Apply the RID Code of Ethics to situations involving both adults and children.
- Behave in a professional manner, using professional communication strategies.
- Describe the history of sign language interpretation as a profession.
- Demonstrate understanding of the business aspects of interpreting.
- Describe the current national evaluation and certification process for interpreters.
- Describe and communicate to others the appropriate role of an interpreter.
- Describe ways interpreters function in specific settings and with specific populations.
- Apply techniques of text analysis to determine the effects of context, audience, venue, time, circumstances, speaker, genre, issues and setting on the interpreting process, to anticipate content, to determine main and supporting points of a text, and to make appropriate target language choices.
- Describe issues that are currently relevant to the field of interpreting and to the Deaf community.
- Demonstrate understanding of the need for continuing education as a professional interpreter and of opportunities for such continuing education in the community.
- Reflect on, write about and discuss their experiences in a non-judgmental manner, keeping all identifying information confidential.
One-Year Certificate: Sign Language Interpretation - Deaf Studies
Upon completion of the Sign Language Interpretation Program Deaf Studies Certificate, students will be able to:
- Act with respect, knowledge and understanding of Deaf people and ASL, with an appreciation for their linguistic and cultural diversity, values and social customs.
- Use American Sign Language (ASL) with grammatically correct sentence structure, finger spelling, numbering systems, classifiers, and non-manual behavior, using appropriate transitions, conversational repair and cohesive features.
- Use ASL for descriptive, expository, dialogue, hortatory, procedural and narrative discourse at conversational and academic levels.
- Apply language observation and learning skills outside the classroom.
- Describe ASL from an analytical-theoretic perspective, including comparing/contrasting it with English and demonstrating its validity as a language.
- Demonstrate understanding of Deaf people from diverse backgrounds, including differences in language use, communication modes, age, gender and ethnic identity.
- Identify their own cultural values and social customs and compare/contrast them with those of the Deaf community in the United States and with other cultural groups.
- Describe Deaf literature, art and folklore and the importance of preserving them.
- Demonstrate understanding of the implications of cultural differences such as collectivism and individualism; high and low context; time orientation; polychronic and monochronic orientation; and differences in reasoning and rhetoric.
- Demonstrate understanding of how interpreters function, knowledge of the NCI Code of Ethics and the history of the profession.
- Behave in a professional manner.
- Use professional communication strategies.
- Describe issues which are currently relevant to the Deaf community on a local and national level.
- Reflect on, write about and discuss their experiences in a non-judgmental manner, keeping all identifying information confidential.
- Accept feedback from peers, supervisors and mentors and make adjustments to improve their work.