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RID study materials for NIC written test

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show the language of the American Deaf community; it is often described as a visual-gestural language with a grammar, culture, and vocabulary distinct from English and other signed languages. ASL is also used by deaf people in some parts of Canada.  
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show a federal law, passed in 1990, which required improvements in accessibility for all people with disabilities including deaf people; it is sometimes referred to as a civil rights act for people with disabilities.  
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HEARING IMPAIRED   show
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show a term used to identify an individual who interprets; this term may also be used generically to include those who transliterate (see transliterate).  
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show a term used to refer to a number of sign language systems that attempt to visually represent English by using its grammar and created or modified signs to represent English vocabulary; includes Signing Exact English (SEE) and Pidgin Signed English (PSE).  
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show a term often used to refer to signing that occurs when deaf people and people who are not deaf interact; PSE uses ASL vocabulary in English word order. This is also sometimes referred to as contact signing.  
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show a national professional organization and certifying body for interpreters and those interested in the sign language interpreting profession. RID has affiliate chapters in each state.  
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show a general term for several conditions that can result from using a set of muscles repeatedly or incorrectly, especially resulting from repetitive movements of the hands and arms; repetitive motion disorders are potential job hazards for sign language inte  
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SIGNING EXACT ENGLISH (SEE 2)   show
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show interpreting from a signed language into a spoken language.  
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SOURCE LANGUAGE   show
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TARGET LANGUAGE   show
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show the act of changing a message from one form of a language to another form of the same language; in the field of sign language interpreting, this most commonly refers to changing spoken English into a visual form of English (see Manually Coded English, Pid  
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TRANSLITERATOR   show
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VOICE-TO-SIGN INTERPRETING (V-S)   show
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Interpretation   show
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show Persons who have inadequate education, lack of exposure to any language or for other reasons are not competent in any language. They use neither ASL nor English fluently. They may use "home signs".It is common to use props, gestures, pictures and a Deaf i  
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Classifiers   show
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show The condition of partially or completely lacking in the sense of hearing to the extent that one cannot understand speech for everyday communication purposes. (For example, you can't hear well enough to use the phone on a consis  
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show refers to embracing the cultural norms, beliefs, and values of the Deaf Community. The term "Deaf" should be capitalized when it is used as a shortened reference to being a member of the Deaf Community.Example: He is Deaf. (Mean  
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show Non-manual markers are facial expressions and body movements. Non-manual markers are used to inflect signs. That means to change, influence, or emphasize the meaning of a sign or signed phrase. For example, when asking a question that can be answered w  
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Pathology of Deafness   show
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show classifiers that are smaller than life size, the shape and movement of which does not necessarily have iconic features.  
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show generic and lacking in specificity.  
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show modifications to building design, program delivery, or forms of communicatin which will allow Deaf and disabled individuals to gain access to services provided by an institution or agency.  
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Adventitious deafness   show
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Affect   show
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show one's first language, usually the language your parents speak although this is not always the case, also known as mother tongue or native language.  
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Ambivalence   show
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show a form of signing which blends ASL with English-based signs; a contact variety more closely affiliated with ASL than English.  
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Anglophone   show
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show the national professional association and certifying body of sign lanugage interpreters in Canada.  
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show an attitude based on pathological thinking that results in a negative stigma toward anyone who does not hear; it judges labels, and limits individuals on the basis of whether a person hears and speaks.  
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Auditory feedback loop   show
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Aural-Oral languages   show
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show an idea frequently held by members of marginalized groups that members of the oppressor group are somehow super-beings, also refered to as "magical thinking"  
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Bicultural   show
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Bilingual-Bicultural (Bi-Bi)   show
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show an approach which stresses ASL as the instructional language for all subjects except English, with an ultimate goal of developing competency in both English and ASL; students study ASL, Deaf culture, Deaf heritage/history, and Deaf studies.  
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B-Language (L2)   show
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Certificate of Interpretation (COI)   show
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C-Language   show
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show a term used to refer to those for whom sign language interpreters work, includes both Deaf and hearing consumers.  
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Cloze skills   show
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show a set of guidelines that require an individual to develop effective decision making skills, a clear sense of a person's beliefs and values, understand how society defines right/wrong, good/bad, and have the ability to apply all of this to spur of the mome  
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Code switching   show
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Communication dynamics   show
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Communication Facilitation Philosophy   show
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Communication   show
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show a manual code for English which combines English grammatical order with ASL signs and some invented initialized signs; choices of signs based on the intended concept or idea of the speaker.  
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show includes a belief of Deaf people as handicapped and needing to learn to take care of themselves; word-for-sign equivalents between signs and spoken English; and the interpreter as having no responsibity for the interaction or communication dynamics taking  
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show an American organization of educators who teach interpretation; membership is international.  
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Confidentiality   show
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show to be born deaf or hard-of-hearing.  
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show the process of interpreting into the target language after the speaker completes one or more ideas in the source language and pauses while the interpreter transmits that information; more accurate than simultaneous interpretion.  
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Consultative   show
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Contact Varieties   show
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show the ability to break the whole into its parts, to examine in detail, to look more deeply into a text and determine its nature by engaging in disciplined reasoning, inferring and deducing in order to extract the message carried "below the words/signs" or '  
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show interpreting in such a way that information has equivalent meaning and impact for individuals with different languages and cultural schema; requires an interpreter to make cultural and liguistic expansions and reductions.  
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show providing the contextual information required to make sense out of something that is signed or said to someone without the requisite schema or experiential frame.  
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show reducing the volume and sometimes the detail of information within an interpretation without affecting the meaning intended; done to meet communication and cultural norms of the target language.  
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Cultural view of Deaf people   show
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Culture   show
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Deaf view of "Deaf"   show
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show refers to the inability to hear as compared to "normal' hearing, enerally seen as a deficit or an impairment; measured by decibels.  
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show a unit for expressing the relative intensity of sounds on a scale from zero for the average least perceptible sound to about 130 for the average level where sound induces pain.  
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show when minority group members being dependent upon members of the power group for certain things they perceive they are unable to do for themselves.  
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Discourse style   show
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Dynamic equivalence   show
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show behaving in a way that supports another's right to make decisions within an interpersonal interaction by vesting control in the hands of consumers rather than solely in the hands of the interpreter; avoiding the imposition of one's own opinions, advice, s  
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Empowerment   show
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show a generic term used to refer to a variety of signing systems based on English structure, rather than the stucture of ASL; includes the Rochester Method, SEE1, SEE2, and CASE.  
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show phenomena in the area surrounding communication that can affect the interaction, including lights, extraneous auditory or visual noise, distance from the interpreter to the speaker, distance from the interpreter to the audience, etc.  
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show words, signs, or phrases that can be interpreted in more than one way; often misleading or confusing to the listener.  
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show making choices and acting in a way that respects others; grows out of a strong moral sense; requires the ability to think critically and the courage to choose to do the right thing.  
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Ethics   show
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Ethnocentric   show
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Euphemistic language   show
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show actual, physical factors that interfere with communication; includes flickering of an overhead florescent light, the squeal of a poorly connected microphone, or the incessant coughing of someone in the room.  
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show the tendency of members of an oppressed group to feel powerless to change or strike back at "the system"; a "go with the flow" and "don't rock the boat" attitude.  
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show a lack of determined action that might lead to true equality and empowerment based on fear and sense of inferiority that "paralyzes" oppressed individuals; this response is common among members of an oppressed group, in spite of their anger about the inju  
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show a term used in Canada to refer to people who use French-based communication.  
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Frozen form   show
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Frozen linguistic register   show
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Group oppression   show
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show views Deaf people as handicapped, limited, unable to fully manage their personal and business affairs; believes that Deaf people are mentally, emotionally, or experientially incapable of fully understanding the world around them; views the interpreter as  
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HVO   show
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Horizontal hostility   show
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Institutionalized oppression   show
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LSQ   show
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show the time used by the interpreter to analyze a source language utterance and to make cultural and linguistic adjustments before producing an equivalent message in the target language; also called processing time.  
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Lineage of Deaf children   show
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show grammatical structure of a language wherein lexical items and parts of speech are produced singularly, one at a time, in a string of single lexical units.  
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Linguistic expansion   show
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show being able to manipulate a language with the finesse of a native or near-native user of the language; this includes being able to properly shift registers, dicuss technical and non-technical topics, and to "play" with the language; bicultural skills are i  
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Linguistic reduction   show
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Linguistics   show
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show a set of beliefs regarding Deaf individuals, ASL, and communication dynamics which influence the way a person views her/his role and work as an interpreter; includes a belief of Deaf people as handicapped and needing to learn how to take care of themselve  
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show an arrangement in which a more experienced interpreter "adopts" a less experienced interpreter and serving as a sounding board to review and evaluate the less-experienced interpreter's professional behavior, decision-making, and quality of interpretation.  
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show the channel through which a message is expressed, specifically spoken or signed.  
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show the ability of a language to produce more than one lexical item or more than one part of speech simultaneously.  
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Myth of the mis-guided child   show
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show traditional stories that ostensibly explain the world view of a particular group of people or that explains a practice or belief.  
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Need for approval from marginalized group members   show
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Negative view of the oppressed group   show
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Oppression   show
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show deaf indiviuals who do not use sign language, preferring to use speech and speech-reading as their primary form of communication.  
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show making spoken English visible for an oral Deaf individual; includes repeating what is being said without speech, selecting words that are most easily speech-readable and sometimes using a gesture for clarification.  
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show one who listens to a spoken English message, then rephrases that message into clearly speech-readable forms for a Deaf consumer who uses speech and speech reading as primary forms of communication.  
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Paralinguistic elements   show
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Passive voice   show
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Paternalism and possessive consciousness   show
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show biological factors that interfere with communication; i.e. illness, exhaustion, hunger.  
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Pragmatic use of language   show
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Process models of interpretation   show
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show the time used by the interpreter to analyze the source language utterance and to make cultural and linguistic adjustments before producing an equivalent message in the target language (also called lag time).  
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Professional competence   show
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show a social, psychological and physical boundary established to insure individuals function within appropriate professional roles; protects both the professional and the client.  
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Professionals   show
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Prosody   show
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show realities that exist in the heads of all participants in the communication environment and distract from or interferes with the communication; includes things like internal stress, personal judgements about the other participants, and random thoughts that  
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show classifiers that take on life-size proportions and sometimes look a bit like a reduced form of mime when being produced.  
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Reciprocal signals   show
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show an assumption that the experiences and values of another group are identical to your own. Thus, if you traded places, members of the second group would come to view the world like yourself and develop concomitant values.  
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Register   show
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Residual hearing   show
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Resistance to attempts for liberation   show
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show a manual code for English wherein each letter of the English alphabet is assigend a hand shape and all words communicated, with the exception of AND, are fingerspelled.  
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show an organizational or conceptual pattern in the mind; the contextual frame or "script" that helps us interpret what is happening; learned informally from our social and cultural interactions.  
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show Seeing Essential English; a manual code for English wherein each syllable is given a separate manual movement.  
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Semantics   show
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show changing a message from the frozen form of one language into another signed or spoken language done on first sight, without the time normally required to prepare a formal translation.  
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SSS   show
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SE   show
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Sign-to-Voice   show
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Simultaneous communication   show
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Simultaneous interpretation/transliteration   show
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show Size and Shape Specifiers; a specific subset of classifiers that function to describe various nouns; functions like English adjectives.  
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show the motivating purpose behind communication; includes a variety of things such as teaching, inspiring, counseling, teasing, scolding, selling, etc.  
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show a skill employed by some deaf and hh individuals to comprehend spoken communication; involves a combination of deciphering lip, cheek, and throat movements, clarifying gestures and use of closure skills to determine meaning.  
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Stereotype   show
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Support group   show
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TOI   show
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Total Communication   show
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Translation   show
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Visual-gestural languages   show
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WTK   show
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RID   show
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Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1965   show
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show if receiving gov funding (i.e. state schools, etc.) the entity must provide accessibility and accomodations for all disabilities; this covers students, parents, and school personnel.  
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PL94.142   show
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show an interpreter must be provided if a non-native English speaker is involved in court, not disability legislation, witness testimony must be consecutive.  
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IDEA   show
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IEP   show
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show Individual Family Service Plan; for kids age 0-3 or 0-5, this intervention helps the child by helping earlier, recongnizes the whole family is affected by a disability.  
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show Least Restricted Environment; law assumes mainstreaming and parents are responsible to prove mainstreaming is not LRE and often lose.  
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ADA   show
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