Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

Use an understanding of the administration of educational services for deaf children in K-12 settings, including administrative responsibilities, position descriptions, contracts, policies, and evaluations to effectively advocate for themselves as employees in that setting.
Work effectively as a member of the educational team in order to determine when and what issues should be referred.
Use knowledge of etiology of hearing loss in children, co-occurring disabilities, and current research regarding deaf children and cognition to determine appropriate strategies to meet students’ needs.
Integrate an understanding of differences in expectations of interpreters and student’s abilities when working with primary, middle and high school students in order to work effectively with each age group.
Follow best practices in behavior management.
Integrate knowledge of laws that impact the education of deaf and hearing children, the provision of interpreting services, and their effect on interpreters in the workplace.
Act in accordance with the ethical and professional standards of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf Code of Professional Conduct, and the Educational Interpreter Proficiency Assessment Guidelines for Professional Conduct for Educational Interpreters, applying the Demand Control Schema to analysis and decision making.
Apply theories of language acquisition in hearing children and factors which limit deaf children’s language acquisition to interpreting decisions in K-12 settings.

Activities include lectures, readings, discussions, ethical & logistical problem-solving, group or individual projects, guest lecturers and panel discussions. 

Evaluation is based on group/individual projects, student presentations, papers, and exams or quizzes.

Roles and responsibilities

Characteristics of deaf learners

Expectations of K-12 interpreters

Legislation

Technology

Professionalism

Language Acquisition