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Clemson University and its partners at the South Carolina State Department of

Education and the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind manage the South

Carolina Educational Interpreting Center (SCEIC) at the University Center in Greenville, South

Carolina. The SCEIC provides national performance and knowledge assessments, mentoring

and educational opportunities for South Carolina Educational Interpreters. This annual report

details the SCEIC outputs and outcomes for Educational Interpreters in the state for the 2018-

2019 funding year.

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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