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Introducing ASL-English Educational Interpreting. Translation Practices Explained
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Stephen Fitzmaurice; Deborah Cates – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025
This textbook offers a clear and accessible introduction to educational interpreting, focusing on the unique demands of working with deaf students in public school settings. Most interpreters begin their careers in these environments, often without specific preparation for the developmental and educational needs of deaf children. The book explores…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deaf Interpreting, Interpretive Skills, Deafness
Use of American Sign Language and Deaf Participants in Dance Theater: Considerations in Practice
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LaReina Hingson; Keely Song; David Schekall – Journal of Dance Education, 2025
Productions can be made more accessible for Deaf and hard of hearing (DHoH) dancers, performers, and audiences. This article provides ideas and guidelines on how to include and accommodate them. Reflecting on our experiences developing the dance theatrical production of "Within Dreams," we describe the need for making space for DHoH…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hard of Hearing, American Sign Language, Dance
Opening the Pathway: An Example of Universal Design for Learning as a Guide to Inclusive Teaching Practices
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Orndorf, Hayley C.; Waterman, Margaret; Lange, Donna; Kavin, Denise; Johnston, Sam Catherine; Jenkins, Kristin P. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) provides a flexible framework for supporting a wide variety of learners. We report here on a conference that presented the UDL framework as a way to increase success of deaf and hard-of-hearing (deaf/hh) students in introductory biology courses. The Opening the Pathway conference was an NSF Advanced…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Students with Disabilities
The Dialectic of Second-Language Learning: On Becoming an ASL-English Interpreter
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McDermid, Campbell – Sign Language Studies, 2017
A small group of interpreters was interviewed with regard to their view of learning ASL and becoming bicultural. A model of identity was then postulated based on Hegel's dialectic (Wheat 2012) of thesis (presuppositions, stereotypes, or theories about ASL and the Deaf community), antithesis (conflicting experiences), and synthesis (new…
Descriptors: English, Speech Communication, Deafness, American Sign Language
A Rural School Educator Builds Student Learners through Access to Curriculum, Self-Advocacy, and Connections to the Deaf Community
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Mathisen, Megan – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2013
In this article Megan Mathisen, a teacher of deaf and hard of hearing children at St. Anne Grade School in St. Anne, Illinois, describes her work with two boys in second grade and one boy in fifth grade who at the beginning of the school year had reading and language delays. After working with them, her second grade boys are now on grade level and…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Elementary School Students, Males
Effects of Real-Time Captioning and Sign Language Interpreting on the Learning of College Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
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Smith-Pethybridge, Valorie – ProQuest LLC, 2009
College personnel are required to provide accommodations for students who are deaf and hard of hearing (D/HoH), but few empirical studies have been conducted on D/HoH students as they learn under the various accommodation conditions (sign language interpreting, SLI, real-time captioning, RTC, and both). Guided by the experiences of students who…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Partial Hearing, Deafness, Metacognition