ASL for Educational Interpreters - Intermediate Part A

Course offered through distance learning OR in class

Developer: Naomi Sheneman, BS

Level:  2.0 - 3.5  on EIPA

Maximum Number of Participants:  12

Total hours: 24 (8 weeks)

This course will focus on continuing to learn ASL grammar features - visual information, non-manual markers, pronominalization, syntax, classifiers, and incorporation of fingerspelling and numbers.  Participants will continue to acquire more sign vocabulary.  Additionally, participants will gain additional information in the following Deaf history/culture topics - ASL beginnings in America, introduction to Deaf community, signer feedback, attention-getting strategies, information sharing, ASL vs. signed English, other communication modes, Deaf vs. deaf and labeling.

Taught in ASL.

NYS Educational Interpreter Performance Competencies:

  • Clarity and Accuracy of Sign Production
  • Use of Signing Space
  • Non-Manual Information
  • ASL Morphology
  • Fingerspelling and Numbers
  • Classifiers
  • Message Processing

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