2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/09/2020 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Educational Interpreters: Student Perspectives | Benton
Educational Interpreters: Student Perspectives
Although we have many deaf/hard of hearing students who are successful in mainstream education using only hearing technology, the reality is that there are many who prefer and need visual access through educational interpreters. It falls on parents and students to advocate for interpreters in school, which can be challenging from the very beginning. There is much misunderstanding about what effective access means and there are systemic quality and standards issues with the educational interpreters who serve students in the public K-12 school system. This session will provide the context and information you need to support kids who need access to communication in school through educational interpreters—and you will get it straight from a panel of high school and college students who want to share their experience and advice with you.
- 1. To understand why students who use hearing technology still often need interpreters in school
- 2. To understand how interpreters support students in school
- 3. To understand the challenges of interpreted education and how to support families and stude
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Amy Hund
(), CueSign, Inc., Handjive76@gmail.com;
Amy Hund is in her twenty-fifth year of practice as an American Sign Language-English interpreter, and is in her first year as an ASL instructor at Topeka High School in Topeka, KS. Additionally, she was previously an NCSA certified Cued Speech instructor, and has been a working Cued Language Transliterator for five years. Amy graduated with a BGS from Wichita State University (Kansas) with a concentration in Sociology and minors in Psychology and Communication.
Amy has designed and delivered over one hundred hours of training for ASL interpreters, and for those learning CAE at beginning, intermediate, or advanced levels. Her passion for helping families communicate leads Amy to volunteer or work at several camps that support family communication development every year.
She is a board member of CueSign, Inc., an organization which promotes multilingualism through ASL and CS. When not doing any of the above, Amy is a published writer and blogger. You will find her work at www.alhund.com.
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Max Tucker
(), Rocky Mountain Cued Speech Association, Maxtuckercues@gmail.com;
Max Tucker is a 17 year old high school senior from Denver, Colorado. Max is deaf, oral, and a native cuer who uses cochlear implants and a cued Language Transliterator for communication access in a small, private school for the gifted and talented. Max is looking forward to attending college next fall to study entrepreneurship, education, art and design. Max is also a founding member of the Rocky Mountain Cued Speech Association, which supports the Rocky Mountain region. Max teaches Cued Speech and plans to teach American Sign Language in the future.
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Leah Coleman
(), ASDC, Leah@signingtime.com;
Leah Coleman is best known for their role as “Leah” in public television’s “Signing Time!” At the age of seven, Leah got a cochlear implant and was mainstreamed with support from ASL interpreters. Leah is now 23 years old and recently graduated from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf/Rochester Institute of Technology where Leah majored in individualized studies with the concentrations of visual arts and deaf cultural studies, with a minor in anthropology & sociology.
Leah lives in Cottonwood Heights, Utah and in Rochester, New York with their Canine Companion “hearing dog” Robin.
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