Alaska State School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Welcome to the Interpreter Resources section of the Alaska State School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Website!  You are encouraged to visit this website often as new links will be added regularly.  This website is very extensive and cannot be digested in one sitting.  It is recommended that you take some quality time, bit-by-bit, and slowly discover the wealth of resources offered in this site.  If you have any suggestions, report any errors or additions, please contact Laura Miller at miller_laura@asdk12.org.

1. Print Resources: Links to reading resources to view in summary, or purchase in entirety. Topics cover Interpreting, Linguistics, Education and much more!

2. Educational Interpreter: Cover an in-depth study on the roles and responsibilities of the Educational Interpreter. Some of the topics covered include aspects of the IEP, Language Development, Cognition, Use of Fingerspelling in Educational Settings, Social Interaction and more

3. Skill Building: If you are looking for some quick skill building resources to take advantage of during your 15 minute break, this page is chock-full of many! There's links that will help you build both of your receptive and expressive performance skills!

4. Survival Prep Tools: This page provides resourceful links to dictionaries in specific categories. Suppose you are about to interpret for Geography class, no problem, there's a link for that. Additionally, there's a Visual dictionary and a site that explains how stuff works. These are two great resources that help you get the visual you need to provide an accurate interpretation. Finally, there's a jewel on this page - Jabberwocky interpreted by a Deaf signer, and a Wiki on Jabberwocky that provides a definition for each word!

5. Mentors: This site provides VIEWS articles on Mentoring, NCIEC's Mentoring resources, links to Skill Enhancement Activities that can be prescribed and a myriad of distance mentorship resources, using video and video phone technology - for free!

6. Training: Provides online distance training opportunities

7. Linguistics: Expounds upon American Sign Language. The information on this page will closely follow the format offered on the Evaluation Report to the EIPA.

8. Resources Online: Online resources that promote and assist in the profession of Interpreting.