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Unregulated Autonomy: Uncredentialed Educational Interpreters In Rural Schools, Stephen Fitzmaurice
Unregulated Autonomy: Uncredentialed Educational Interpreters In Rural Schools, Stephen Fitzmaurice
Stephen Fitzmaurice
LTHOUGH MANY rural Deaf and Hard of Hearing students attend public
schools most of the day and use the services of educational interpreters
to gain access to the school environment, little information exists
on what interpreters are doing in rural school systems in the absence
of credentialing requirements. The researcher used ethnographic interviews
and field observations of three educational interpreters with no
certification or professional assessment to explore how uncredentialed
interpreters were enacting their role in a rural high school. The findings
indicate that uncredentialed interpreters in rural settings perform four
major functions during their school day: preparing the environment, …