Educational Interpreting: Elementary Settings

Catalog description

This course is designed to prepare students to interpret in elementary school settings. Content will include an orientation to activities, elementary level content, sign vocabulary, language development, psycho-social development, and interpreting issues that are pertinent to elementary students. The course addresses strategies for interpreting classroom discourse and various content areas. Vocabulary for various elementary content areas will be introduced. Students will simultaneously interpret English-to-ASL and ASL-to-English, elementary-level texts.