Originally Posted by jillio

I agree. He was very lucky that we were able to find such a good placement for him.

I know exactly the kind of terps you are talking about. They are found a lot in the mainstream, and my son had one for a while until we succeeded in having him placed at the deaf school. She stepped way outside her duties as an interpreter, and tried to act more like a teacher's aid. Inf act, one time when she stopped interpreting to tell my son to "Pay attention!" he responded by telling her, "You're not my mommy!" When she complained to me, I simply told her he was right. Her job was to interpret, not discipline. If he needed to be disciplined, it was the teacher's job to do so, and simply her job to interpret what the teacher was communicating to him in the process. That sort of constant intrusiveness is frustrating for the deaf child, and actually impedes the educational process rather than helps it.