Demonstrating the Proximal Need for Interpreter Education
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Title
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Demonstrating the Proximal Need for Interpreter Education
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Creator
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Jodi Upton
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Degree Name
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Master of Arts in Interpreting Studies
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Project Type
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professional_project
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Date
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3/1/2022
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Abstract
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This professional project is an assessment for the greater Chattanooga area on the need for an interpreter education program. Surveys were sent to stakeholders within a two-hour radius of Chattanooga, Tennessee. This includes American Sign Language students, working interpreters, interpreting agencies/organizations, and the Deaf community. The data collected from these surveys will be used to assess the need for an interpreter education program since the closing of Tennessee Temple University, the main source of interpreter education in the greater Chattanooga area. Should the surveys show a need in the deaf community and in interpreting agencies for more qualified interpreters, as well as a desire of interpreting students to have a local option for schooling, establishing an interpreter education program in this area could increase the pool of qualified interpreters in the greater Chattanooga area and offer better service to the deaf communities we serve.
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Committee Member
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Amanda Smith, Lisa Godfrey, Colleen Jones
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Rights
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Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 6/10/2022, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author at the email address listed above.
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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Language
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eng
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Date Available
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4/11/2022
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Type
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Text; Image; StillImage
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Identifier
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theses/151
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