MEDICAL INTERPRETING

Catalog description

(Slashed with ASEI 43118 ) This course provides students with the opportunity to explore medical topics, terminologies, and areas of practice to enable them to more effectively meet the needs of deaf patients in a variety of healthcare settings. This course is designed to equip students with basic skills and knowledge to meet the demands of this setting. Students in this course will become familiar with body systems structures, functions, and common conditions-diseases affecting these systems. Students will be exposed to a variety of medical protocols, scripts, testing procedures, and areas of medical practice. As a result, students will be able to interpret medical information into ASL-appropriate structures. They will specifically be able to apply strategies of depiction and spatial mapping.