Interpreting Services Type Code

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Interpreting Services Type Code

• PEIMS Data Standards
• April 1, 2008

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C174 - INTERPRETING-SERVICES-TYPE-CODE

• Code - Translation
• 00 - No interpreting service provided
• 01 - Oral Transliteration
• 02 - CUED Language Transliteration
• 03 - Sign Language Transliteration
• 04 - Sign Language Interpreting
• 05 - Communication Access Realtime Translation
  (CART)
• 06 - C-Print
• 07 - TypeWell
• 08 - Deaf-Blind Interpreting

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IDEA 2004

• 34 CFR 300.34(c)
• (4) Interpreting services includes
• (i) The following, when used with respect to
  children who are deaf or hard of hearing Oral
  transliteration services, cued language
  transliteration services, sign language
  transliteration and interpreting services, and
  transcription services, such as communication
  access real-time translation (CART), C-Print, and
  TypeWell and
• (ii) Special interpreting services for children
  who are deaf-blind.

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Oral Transliteration

• Oral Transliteration is provided In certain
  communication settings, where speechreading, also
  referred to as lip-reading, cannot be used
  effectively by individuals who are deaf or hard
  of hearing. These settings may include the
  following
• Classrooms
• Groups
• Conferences and seminars
• Communication with a speaker who is not present
  (phone calls, radio, public announcements, etc.)
• Communication with a speaker who is present but
  whose speech is difficult to speechread (accents,
  articulations differences, etc.)
• For more information
• http//www.rid.org/UserFiles/File/pdfs/Standard_Pr
  actice_Papers/Drafts_June_2006/Oral_Transliteratio
  n_SPP.pdf

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CUED Language Transliteration

• CUED language transliteration is provided to
  users of Cued Speech, which is a mode of
  communication based on the phonemes and
  properties of traditionally spoken languages.
  Cueing allows users who are deaf or hard of
  hearing or who have language/communication
  disorders to access the basic, fundamental
  properties of spoken languages through the use of
  vision.
• For more information
• http//www.cuedspeech.org/

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Sign Language Transliteration

• Direct translation between spoken English and an
  English-based sign language systems such as
• SEE (Signing Exact English)
• http//www.seecenter.org/index.html
• MSS (Morphemic Sign System)
• CASE (Conceptually Accurate Signed English)
• Signed English
• MCE (Manually Coded English)
• PSE (Pidgin Signed English)

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Sign Language Interpreting

• Interpreting spoken English into American Sign
  Language (ASL) or ASL into spoken English
• ASL is the language used by many deaf adults in
  the United States. ASL differs distinctly from
  English in grammar and syntax. There is no spoken
  or written form of ASL.
• For more information
• http//www.rid.org/

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Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART)

• Sometimes referred to as realtime captioning,
  CART is the instant translation of the spoken
  word into English text using a stenotype machine,
  notebook computer and realtime software. The text
  appears on a computer monitor or other display.
• For more information
• http//www.cartinfo.org/

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C-Print

• C-Print is a speech-to-text system developed at
  the National Technical Institute for the Deaf
  (NTID), a college of Rochester Institute of
  Technology (RIT), as a communication access
  service option. A captionist, skilled in text
  condensing strategies, provides a meaning-for
  meaning (not verbatim) translation of spoken
  English content.
• For more information
• http//www.ntid.rit.edu/cprint/

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TypeWell

• A trained transcriber uses a laptop computer with
  the TypeWell abbreviation software to transcribe
  meaning-for-meaning what is said in lectures and
  discussions.  The deaf person reads the
  transcript in real-time from a second computer.
  He or she can also type questions and comments to
  the transcriber to be voiced and can take notes
  right in the TypeWell program on the second
  computer. 
• For more information
• http//typewell.com/

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Deaf-Blind Interpreting

• Special interpreting services provided by trained
  professionals to individuals who are deaf-blind.