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Just wanted to thank everyone again for your input...I haven't heard anything more about what is going to happen next, but I have put my concerns in writing and out to those who I believe can make the change. Hopefully things will change...and soon!

To me, it's no different than any household in which kids learn English second... All hearing people learn their parents language first, and it's often not English. I spoke Norwegian first, and then learned English...if I'd had Deaf parents who used ASL, I would have learned ASL first. As was...

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As I mentioned before, the DB students I work with do have additional issues, and I am more fluent and have a larger sign vocab than they do. I don't know all the DB students in the district, but I know that some don't use any sign language at all, using PICs and other modes of communication...

I am writing a letter now, expressing my concerns with the situation, and I heard through the grapevine that the parents are not happy with this situation either, so hopefully they will hire another Interpreter. I know it's a small town, but this kid still deserves better than me.

No need to apologize... I am just upset, and overly-sensitive right now.

A deafblind student who required and was capable of full communication through ASL would have an Intervenor with higher level signing. It's not that I can't sign or that my ASL is terrible, but it's not fabulous and as I said, I am NOT an Interpreter. :(

I do know ASL...but not at an Interpreter level! There is a big difference, here at least, between an Interpreter and an Intervenor... I work, under normal circumstances, with much younger students who are not in a regular academic program, and who often have additional issues aside from their...

I don't think there is anything wrong with carrying him up to bed...but your comments about wanting him to stay little etc. do concern me a little... Miss those times, but don't be sad about them...CELEBRATE his growing up! As he becomes more independent, know that you are doing something right...

Thanks. as a Deafblind Intervenor I am always working on learning more sign language, but there are no Interpreter programs, or even basic signing classes in this community or anywhere close to here. :( I think the closest is about 3 1/2 hours away. I am going to try to get a hold of his former...

I posted my other response before I saw this post...so thank you for your ideas. My contract doesn't say anything about it one way or the other... it has a vague statement about being expected to do various duties "as required"... I like your idea of talking to his terp...maybe between the...

Letting them get away with it? How so? This only happened yesterday, and short of risk losing my job for refusing to go in, there was nothing I could have done at the time. I told them (the person who called me in, as well as the person in charge of the "Deaf and HOH program") that I am not...

Don't know Swedish, but am Norwegian (first language) but haven't spoken in years since my mom died. I can still understand the spoken language and I can still read it, and write a little bit.

sorry...haven't been online for a while... I am in BC

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I know someone who, when she writes to friends, writes exactly the way she talks with them...including tossing in words like, "Hey" and "y'know" and "like" ...so even though she CAN write properly (in her professional life she writes very well) she DOESN'T when she is writing to friends. If...

Not an answer to the problem, but wanted to say I think it's sad that she is not taking responsibility for her choice, and chooses instead to blame her parents. If she really wanted to, she would tell her parents to stuff it, and she would do the right thing with her child and with the man she...

Oh, and yes, it is a Public School. We had two Interpreters, but one moved to another city a year and a half ago, and they haven't replaced her.

The student has an Interpreter, but there is no QUALIFIED backup. It seems that the District has decided that I will be the backup from here on, if his Interpreter is ill or away for any reason...and have talked about "training" me. No!!! I can not simply be "trained" to fill in when needed; he...

I am a Deafblind Intervenor...NOT an Interpreter. Today, I was sent to work with a Deaf high school student...because they have no one else to fill in when his Interpreter is ill. WTH??? I didn't have a choice, so in I went, but I told the kid that my signing is nowhere near what he needs but...