Special Education: Educational Interpreting
Resources
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Organizations
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc.
http://www.rid.org
Information on membership, testing, issues from the U.S. professional association of interpreters for deaf peopleTennessee RID Chapter
http://www.tennrid.org/North Carolina RID Chapter
http://www.geocities.com/ncrid_org/Five Points Chapter of NCRID
http://www.geocities.com/rid5points/Georgia RID Chapter
http://www.GaRID.org/Virginia RID Chapter
http://www.vrid.org/Potomac Chapter of RID
http://www.pcrid.org/The National Association of the Deaf
http://www.nad.org
Home Page of the National Association of the Deaf (NAD)American Sign Language Teachers Association
http://www.aslta.org/Alabama Association of the Deaf
www.aldeaf.orgFlorida Association of the Deaf
http://www.fladeaf.org/North Carolina Association of the Deaf
http://www.yellowstar.com/NCAD/South Carolina Association of the Deaf
http://www.scadeaf.org/Conference of Interpreter Trainers
http://www.cit-asl.org/ Deaf Women United
http://home.earthlink.net/~murbach/dwu-nc/A Short History of National Black Deaf Advocates
http://deafweb.org/bdahistory.htm
Written by former UT interpreting student Joyce T. CobbsNational Hispanic Council of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
http://dns1.epcc.edu/Community/NMIP/nhc.htmlAlexander Graham Bell Association
http://www.agbel.org/National Cued Speech Association
http://www.cuEd.S.peech.org/PEPNet
http://www.pepnet.org/
Postsecondary Education for Deaf and Hard of Hearing StudentsADARA
http://adara.org/
American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association
Other Federal Interpreter Training Programs
Region I - Northeastern University
http://www.dac.neu.edu/nuiep/Region II - LaGuardia Community College
http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/ace/iep/interpreter.htmRegion III - Gallaudet University
http://gradschool.gallaudet.edu/slps/Region IV - The University of Tennessee
http://sunsite.utk.edu/cod/seritcRegion V - The College of St. Catherine
http://www.stkate.edu/projectRegion VI - The University of Arkansas, Little Rock
http://www.ualr.edu/~rehdept/int-ed/front_page.htmRegion VII - Johnson County Community College
http://www.jccc.net/acad/liberal_arts/it/Region VIII - Front Range Community College
http://frcc.cc.co.us/programs/w/ipp/index.htmlRegion IX - El Camino Community College
http://www.elcamino.cc.ca.us/RITC/Region X - Western Oregon University
http://www.wou.edu/regionx-iec
Other Interpreter Training Programs
Sites for Students of Sign LanguageNational Technical Institute for the Deaf
http://www/rit.edu/~477www/The University of Colorado
http://www.Colorado.EDU/slhs/ASLcert/Deaf Resources
http://teach.virginia.edu/go/cise/ose/categories/hi.html
Provided by the Virginia Office of Special Education. Includes information on a variety of special education topics.Deaf World Web
http://dww.deafworldweb.org/dww/
The "Central Deaf Point on the Internet"Deaf Digest
http://www.yellowstar.com/DeafDigest/homenoframe.htm
Maintained by Barry StrasslerGallaudet University Home Page
http://www.gallaudet.edu/Interpreter Handbook
http://www.sccd.ctc.edu/~stonto/info.html
From Seattle Central Community CollegeASL Linguistics Research Project
http://web.bu.edu/ASLrp/
A cooperative venture among Boston University, Gallaudet University, Dartmouth College and Rutgers University funded by the National Science FoundationRights of Deaf People Under ADA
http://www.captions.com/deafrigh.html
Provided by Michigan Association for Deaf, Hearing and Speech ServicesCaptioned Films
http://www.cfv.org/
Provided by The National Association of the Deaf, large collection of materials easily availableClosed Captioning
http://www.boston.com/wgbh/ncam
Information about a variety of methods for providing accessWhat is an Interpreter?
http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/dss/interp1.htm
Provided by Regional Service Center for Hearing Impaired PeoplePointers for Working with Interpreters by Willard Madsen
http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/dss/pointers.htm
Provided by Disability Support Services of UNDDeaf Information Links
http://www.gallaudet.edu/~11rvalve/deaf.html
Interactive Fingerspelling and Braille Guide
http://disserv.stu.umn.edu/AltForm
Provided by University of Minnesota Disability ServicesThe Use of Indigenous Signs for Other Countries
http://detnews.com/1996/menu/stories/72920.htm
An article from the Detroit News November 4, 1996Online Sign Language Dictionary
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm
Provided by Michigan State UniversityA History of Fingerspelling
http://holodeck.gsfc.nasa.gov/sign/sign-uncompressed.html#VRMLFoundations in American Sign Language
http://members.aol.com/sgmitch/index.htmSIGNhear Communication Center
http://library.advanced.org/10202/SignStream Project
http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/SignStream/index.html
A project to enable researchers to capture the production of signs and do online analysis.Animated Sign Language Dictionary
http://www.bconnex.net/~randys/index1.html
Has not been updated in a while but still a useful tool.Download Fingerspelling Fonts
http://www.visi.com/~pjlareau//disgraph2.html
Fingerspelling Quiz
http://where.com/cgi-bin/quiz.pl
Contact the Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education
A204 Jane and David Bailey Education Complex
1126 Volunteer Boulevard
Knoxville, Tennessee
37996-3442
Phone: 865-974-6228
Fax: 865-974-6302
tallmon@utk.edu