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ASL INTERPRETER EXAM

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-Guarantee passing score -93 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: A person using Cued Language to communicate with a deaf person is using which process?

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Transliteration Question 2: Which form of interpreting is most effective: simultaneous, consecutive, conduit, translation

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Consecutive Question 3: The fact that non-deaf people tend to think that Deaf people would like to be "hearing" is an example of

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Reciprocity of Perspective

Question 4: Linguistic Reduction

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Lost sound in words. Cannot became "can't" over time. Going to became "gonna."

Question 5: Source Language

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The language in which the original message is conveyed.

Question 6: Cultural Expansion

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Providing contextual information required to make sense out of something that is signed or said to someone without the requisite schema.

Question 7: Environmental Demands (Demand-Control Schema)

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Physical surroundings, clientele, specific terms, unique situations. The distance from interpreter to client, noise pollution, etc.

Question 8: Pragmatic use of language

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The way a language is actually used rather than language function; helps us make sense of the language we encounter in our interactions with others and determine the meaning of utterance within the given context.

Question 9: The 5 parameters of ASL Phonology

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Handshape, movement, palm orientation and location

Question 10: Modality

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The channel through which a message is expressed, specifically spoken or signed.

Question 11: What is the main reason for team interpreting?

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To provide support

Question 12: Multi-leveled Grammar

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The ability of a language to produce more than one lexical item or more than one part of speech simultaneously.

Question 13: Communication Facilitation Philosophy

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A set of beliefs that influence the way a person views her/his role and work as an interpreter; includes a belief of Deaf people as handicapped, ASL as a means of communicating only with less educated.

Question 14: SEE2 or SEE

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Signing Exact English (1970s) is similiar to SEE1 but compound words are allowed to use invented or modified signs. Developed in an effort to improve Deaf students' English language skills.

Question 15: Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504

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If receiving gov funding (i.e. state schools, etc.) the entity must provide accessibility and accomodations for all disabilities; this covers students, parents, and school personnel.

Question 16: Adventitious deafness

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To become deaf some point AFTER birth

Question 17: Pidgin Signed English (PSE)

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A term often used to refer to signing that occurs when deaf people and people who are not deaf interact;

PSE uses ASL vocab in English word order. AKA: contact signing.

Question 18: Consultative

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One or more of the formal participants is an expert on the situation at hand. (Ex: interpreting at a doctor's office.)

Question 19: IDEA

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Individuals with Disabilities Act is a law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation. It "governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education to children and youth with disabilities."

Question 20: Interpersonal Demands (Demand-Control Schema)

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Considering the thought-world of each person involved (Deaf, hearing and interpreters')

Question 21: WFD

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World Federation of the Deaf Question 22: Code of Professional Conduct Tenent No. 5 says: "Interpreters demonstrate respect for ____, ____ and ____ of the profession."

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Colleagues, interns and students

Question 23: Americans with Disabilities Act

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The Federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)is to limit "barriers to employment, transportation, public accommodations, public services, and telecommunications" (1990) based on the mental or physical disability of a person.

Question 24: Helper Philosophical Frame

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Views Deaf people as handicapped, limited, unable to fully manage their personal and business affairs; believes that Deaf people are mentally, emotionally able to fully understand. Interpreter feels like an older sibling.

Question 25: Translation

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Changing a message from one frozen form of a language to another Question 26: What is meant by the pathological view taken by many professionals?

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They view the Deaf as a physical problem only, not as a minority