Deaf Student-Interpreter Relationships and Feedback Practices in K-12 Mainstream Deaf Education.

ABSTRACT: This study explores Deaf individuals' and sign language interpreters' perspectives on what it is like to work together in K-12 education. A group of 41 formerly mainstreamed Deaf individuals and interpreters offers insights into interactional dynamics (e.g., the deaf student-interpreter relationship) that influence interpreters' work, deaf students' participation and learning, and feedback practices. This study illustrates the significance of the deaf student-interpreter relationship and suggests a correlation between this relationship and deaf students' participation and positioning in mainstream classrooms. In addition, the findings suggest a correlation between the deaf student-interpreter relationship and feedback practices in mainstream education. Finally, this study finds that deaf s

SUBMITTER: Prinzi LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9803979 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature