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Professional Goals For Unc's ASL/English Interpretation

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Professional Goals My name is Caroline LaPrade and I am a third-year student at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC), majoring in ASL/English Interpretation. After graduation, I hope to become an interpreter in the K-12 Education system. Throughout my time in UNC’s ASL/English Interpretation program, I have constantly be troubled by the limited access that deaf children have to a quality education. Teachers may be unprepared and uninformed about how to best provide accommodations for deaf students, as well as being unsure of how to work with an interpreter. In additional, interpreters may be untrained in how to work well with the teacher in educational settings, lacking in proper certification, or incapable of adapting their interpretation …show more content…

As a result, deaf children suffer from unqualified teachers and/or interpreters and do not receive the quality education as they deserve. This is a topic that strongly concerns me and I feel passionate about being part of changing deaf education to better support deaf children. To ensure that I am qualified and effective interpreter, I hope to achieve a score of at least a 4.0 of the IEPA exam. In addition, I want to learn more about how to work with other educational staff effectively. For example, learning to manage the teacher’s accent, a rapid pace of lecture, and how to organize positioning in the classroom, will be important to know. I also hope to understand the structure and importance of IEPs and how to work well in contributing to that document. I plan to start interpreting in the educational field after graduation, and I hope to interpret in several kinds of grade-levels so I will be knowledgeable in a wider span of …show more content…

I can envision myself successful in either one of these settings for different reasons. For elementary school, the goal is to be establishing the child’s foundation of language and academics. There will be basic concepts of science, reading/writing, and math taught, as well as time for storytelling. I am skilled in being emotionally expressive in my signing, especially in storytelling. I am also capable at using classifiers effectively to portray concepts. For younger students who value visual clarity and more eager engagement from the interpreter, I think that my skills in these areas would enable me to be an effective interpreter in the elementary setting. I am also very interested in language deprivation in many deaf students, and how educational interpreters can potentially influence their language development. I am eager to learn about my role as an educational interpreter in the elementary setting and how to help support their language foundation and further development at that grade-level. However, I am also interested in working in a high school setting. High school students have a higher level of maturity and conversational ability, and the topics of the classroom may be much more complex. I enjoy conversating with the age of high schoolers, and I would appreciate the challenge of interpreting more complex material. I enjoy science, math, and literature, so I would love to learn about

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