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Title: Components of an interpreting system


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Components of an interpreting system
Sign Language Interpreting and Access of the
Deaf to the Legal System College of Social Work
and Community Development University of the
Philippines Diliman, Quezon City July 27- 28,
2007
  • Liza B. Martinez, Ph.D.
  • Director
  • Philippine Deaf Resource Center, Inc.

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Generating an interpreter pool
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Certifying interpreters
4
Service delivery
Visual Communication Assessment for the Deaf
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Primary policies needed
  • Registration (/or accreditation of interpreter
    training programs)
  • National assessment standards
  • National certification standards
  • Service delivery Consumer- Interpreter Matching
    compensation working conditions
  • Grievances, violations
  • Continuing evaluation

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  • Other policies needed
  • Recognition of Filipino Sign Language as a
    Philippine language, and eventually, as the
    national sign language
  • Monitoring and accreditation of sign language
    instruction programs

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Critical technical requirements
  • Progressive, rights-based framework for
    monitoring (accrediting?) interpreter training
    programs
  • Linguistically-based assessment standards
  • Linguistically-based certification standards

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Critical Deaf inputs
  • Monitoring (accreditation?) of interpreter
    training programs - particularly curriculum and
    materials
  • Assessment of sign language competency
  • Assessment of sign interpretation competency
  • All matters relating to Deaf interpreters
  • Grievances ethical concerns
  • Continuing certification
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