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REPETITIVE MOTION DISORDERS, REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY   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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Pathology of Deafness   Pathology (in general) is the study of disease. Deaf people don't consider themselves to have a disease or problem.  
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Accessibility   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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Auditory feedback loop   the channel through which hearing people hear (and monitor) their own voice as they speak.  
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Bilingual-Bicultural education (bi-bi)   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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Cloze skills   the ability to mentally fill-in-the-blanks when part of an utterance is obscured or when the receiver does not understand a term or phrase (closure).  
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Communication dynamics   the way people in a communication interaction react to or engage with one another and to the overall interaction.  
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Critical thinking skills   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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Discourse style   the way a language requires that information be presented in a monologue or dialogue.  
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Dynamic equivalence   in an interpreted event, maintaining the "chemistry" between a speaker and her/his audience that allows a connection to be made and the speaker's goals to be accomplished.  
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Empowerment of the client   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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Environmental factors   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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External noise   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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Lineage of Deaf children   90% of all deaf children are born to hearing families who have no deafness in their immediate or extended families; this rate is higher among African Americans where the rate of hereditary deafness is lower.  
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Paralinguistic elements   elements that accompany and add meaning to the expression of language; includes such things as gestures, tone of voice/size of signs, visual/vocal affect, etc.  
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Physiological noise   biological factors that interfere with communication; i.e. illness, exhaustion, hunger.  
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Pragmatic use of language   the way a language is actually used rather than language function; helps us make sense of the language we encounter in our interactions with others and determine the meaning of the utterance within the given context.  
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Process models of interpretation   attempts to graphically demonstrate the complex mental activities, decisions made and the factors influencing an interpretation; some models are based on formal research and others have been developed by long-time practitioners based on reflection and int  
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Psychological noise   ealities 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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