Description
Interpret between spoken language and sign language in real time across settings, enabling communication between deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing people while preserving content, context, and intent.
- • Follow professional codes of conduct and maintain confidentiality.
- • Interpret between spoken language and sign language, simultaneously or consecutively, preserving content, context, and style.
- • Prepare for assignments by reviewing agendas, scripts, and terminology.
- • Research and maintain glossaries of technical and domain-specific terms.
- • Clarify intent with speakers or consumers to resolve ambiguities and cultural nuances.
- • Adapt interpretations to consumers' language modality, register, cognitive, and grade levels.
- • Use VRI/VRS platforms, listening systems, and assistive technologies as needed.
- • Manage turn-taking, pacing, and environmental factors to support access.
- • Provide cultural mediation when appropriate while remaining impartial.
- • Team with other interpreters and debrief to ensure accuracy and consistency.
- • Ensure consistent, accurate rendering of specialized terminology during sessions.
- • Compile information on setting, participants, and goals to tailor the interpreting approach.
- • Discuss service requirements, logistics, and fees with clients.
- • Collaborate with educators and support staff to facilitate access in classrooms.
- • Educate students, parents, staff, and teachers about the role and scope of educational interpreters.
- • Mentor, train, or coordinate schedules for other interpreters as needed.
- • Provide tactile, close-vision, or other access methods for DeafBlind consumers when required.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
