EXAMPLES OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Utilizes a variety of visual media (white boards, mime, props) to effectively communicate clear information to a diverse D/HOH student population.

Collaborates with staff, including ESOL teachers and other special educators to understand students needs and curriculum goals.

Collaborates with staff to insure comprehensive services are identified and appropriate.

Performs basic troubleshooting techniques on cochlear implants.

Ensures that hearing impaired students receive the vocabulary and technical terms used by classroom teachers throughout the educational day, through the medium of cued speech, oral (speech-reading), or total communication interpretation.

Facilitates communication between deaf student/s, classroom teacher, deaf and hearing staff, and hearing students requiring different communication needs simultaneously.

Conveys the precise statements of a speaker (either literally or in slightly paraphrased form) at a comparable rate of speed as the original spoken message.

Provides reverse interpretation for students unable to make themselves adequately understood in regular classrooms.

Provides necessary vocabulary, definitions and background information to enhance previously learned concepts to insure the goals of the IEP are being satisfied.

Ensures students thoroughly understand concepts presented by creatively using accepted communication techniques.

Facilitates communication between the hearing teacher and deaf students, deaf students and hearing students and the teacher of the deaf with hearing students.

Facilitates communication between deaf students who use sign language and those who cue.

Facilitates interpreting/transliterating in crisis situations. Examples are students who are suicidal, severely emotionally distraught, depressed, self-mutilating, belligerent, aggressive and violent.

Collaborates with outside agencies, including but not limited to Social Services, Police Department, Child Protective Services, and Adult Protective services come to the schools requiring interpreters/transliterators to work in teams at times videotaping for legal purposes.

Collaborates with school leadership during Code Red and Code Blue situations and still adhere to a strict code of conduct including confidentiality as stated in an interpreters/transliterators Code of Conduct.

Provides interpreter/transliterator services during MSA/HSA assessments to include signing/cueing text and read-to passages, signing/cueing multiple choice answers, and scribing for the deaf student as stated by IEP goals.

Attends and participates in educational team Acts as tutor, serving as liaison between regular classroom teachers and auditory teachers.

Attend appropriate workshops or educational venues to remain current with technology and effective communication techniques.

Trains students and/or staff in skills necessary for communicating with the hearing impaired population, as necessary.

Performs related work as required.