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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, …

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