EIPA Study Guide & Educational Interpreting Comprehensive Revision Notes
Hearing impaired - ANS ✔✔Disliked term by the Deaf community because it implies they are
broken and need to be fixed rather than simply being deaf
Perspective of Deaf adults - ANS ✔✔Linguistic minority, and not handicapped
Deaf perspective of Cochlear Implants - ANS ✔✔Deaf individuals need to be fixed and become
hearing
Learning about other deaf and hard of hearing individuals - ANS ✔✔All deaf and hard of hearing
students should learn about other deaf and hard of hearing people and Deaf culture to develop
identity as a member of a minority population
Culture change - ANS ✔✔Represent and integrate new experiences of members
Occurs as the needs and interests of members change
Cultural identity - ANS ✔✔Related to self esteem and self awareness; serves as a resource for
decision making
Culture - ANS ✔✔Total sum of attainments of a community of people, including shared
language, social norms, art forms, literature, beliefs, customs, traditions, etc.
Closed captioning - ANS ✔✔A student can read the captions and watch the video
Literacy will affect accessibility.
,Watching a program and reading captions is more difficult than listening and watching
JNAD - ANS ✔✔Junior National Association of the Deaf
Deaf youth organization
Sponsors an annual conference for Deaf and HOH adolescents
Appropriate attention getting strategies of the deaf - ANS ✔✔Gently tapping someone, waving
a hand, or tapping a table
Inappropriate attention getting strategies - ANS ✔✔Grabbing a person's chin, kicking, tapping
too hard
Name signs - ANS ✔✔Conventions for developing name signs, including the fact that signs are
not typically based on a physical characteristics or personality traits
Deaf adults as resources - ANS ✔✔Information about sign language, social opportunities,
identity, and strategies for being a successful deaf or hard of hearing adult
Diversity and deafness - ANS ✔✔Deaf students from diverse cultures should learn about diverse
cultures and their culture in order to develop an identity as a deaf person of color
Interpreters and diverse deaf students - ANS ✔✔Interpreters who work with students from
diverse cultures need strategies for dealing with intercultural and intracultural conflicts
Interpreters need to develop multicultural competencies so they can understand the
implications of acculturation, enculturation, and assimilation processes for individual and
cultural groups
, Multicultural/multi lingual sign language interpreter - ANS ✔✔An interpreter that possesses the
required cultural and linguistic competencies including the sensitivity, knowledge, background,
interpreting skills and/or language(s) necessary to provide equal communication and cultural
access, Both in content and affect, receptively and expressively, forgiven consumer and situation
Linguistics - ANS ✔✔The systematic study of language
Language - ANS ✔✔A rule-governed system composed of symbols that is shared by a group of
people
A rule-governed system, including spoken and signed languages
Function, form, and use are the three dimensions of language.
Discourse - ANS ✔✔Communication, in print or though the air
Sign languages are _____ and have developed through _____ not by design. - ANS ✔✔Natural,
use, design
Language and cognition - ANS ✔✔Language stimulates cognitive development.
Language sophistication influences cognitive abilities.
Cognition and interacting with others - ANS ✔✔The ability to interact with others helps
students develop cognitive skills.
Deafness and cognitive abilities - ANS ✔✔Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing have the
same capability for cognitive development as do student ms with normal hearing.
Hearing impaired - ANS ✔✔Disliked term by the Deaf community because it implies they are
broken and need to be fixed rather than simply being deaf
Perspective of Deaf adults - ANS ✔✔Linguistic minority, and not handicapped
Deaf perspective of Cochlear Implants - ANS ✔✔Deaf individuals need to be fixed and become
hearing
Learning about other deaf and hard of hearing individuals - ANS ✔✔All deaf and hard of hearing
students should learn about other deaf and hard of hearing people and Deaf culture to develop
identity as a member of a minority population
Culture change - ANS ✔✔Represent and integrate new experiences of members
Occurs as the needs and interests of members change
Cultural identity - ANS ✔✔Related to self esteem and self awareness; serves as a resource for
decision making
Culture - ANS ✔✔Total sum of attainments of a community of people, including shared
language, social norms, art forms, literature, beliefs, customs, traditions, etc.
Closed captioning - ANS ✔✔A student can read the captions and watch the video
Literacy will affect accessibility.
,Watching a program and reading captions is more difficult than listening and watching
JNAD - ANS ✔✔Junior National Association of the Deaf
Deaf youth organization
Sponsors an annual conference for Deaf and HOH adolescents
Appropriate attention getting strategies of the deaf - ANS ✔✔Gently tapping someone, waving
a hand, or tapping a table
Inappropriate attention getting strategies - ANS ✔✔Grabbing a person's chin, kicking, tapping
too hard
Name signs - ANS ✔✔Conventions for developing name signs, including the fact that signs are
not typically based on a physical characteristics or personality traits
Deaf adults as resources - ANS ✔✔Information about sign language, social opportunities,
identity, and strategies for being a successful deaf or hard of hearing adult
Diversity and deafness - ANS ✔✔Deaf students from diverse cultures should learn about diverse
cultures and their culture in order to develop an identity as a deaf person of color
Interpreters and diverse deaf students - ANS ✔✔Interpreters who work with students from
diverse cultures need strategies for dealing with intercultural and intracultural conflicts
Interpreters need to develop multicultural competencies so they can understand the
implications of acculturation, enculturation, and assimilation processes for individual and
cultural groups
, Multicultural/multi lingual sign language interpreter - ANS ✔✔An interpreter that possesses the
required cultural and linguistic competencies including the sensitivity, knowledge, background,
interpreting skills and/or language(s) necessary to provide equal communication and cultural
access, Both in content and affect, receptively and expressively, forgiven consumer and situation
Linguistics - ANS ✔✔The systematic study of language
Language - ANS ✔✔A rule-governed system composed of symbols that is shared by a group of
people
A rule-governed system, including spoken and signed languages
Function, form, and use are the three dimensions of language.
Discourse - ANS ✔✔Communication, in print or though the air
Sign languages are _____ and have developed through _____ not by design. - ANS ✔✔Natural,
use, design
Language and cognition - ANS ✔✔Language stimulates cognitive development.
Language sophistication influences cognitive abilities.
Cognition and interacting with others - ANS ✔✔The ability to interact with others helps
students develop cognitive skills.
Deafness and cognitive abilities - ANS ✔✔Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing have the
same capability for cognitive development as do student ms with normal hearing.
