Complete with enthralling illustrations and talented American Sign Language (ASL) storytelling, this bilingual interactive storybook app features a rich American Sign Language glossary with 170 English to ASL words. The Baobab is an original story about a curious little girl who embarks on an adventure. The course also introduces and discuss resources, agencies, and effective provision of interpreter/ interveners/ Support Service Providers (SSP) services for academic or community events where Deaf-Blind individuals participate.The Baobab is the world's first bilingual ASL and English interactive storybook app that supports literacy development. Specific linguistic modifications and flexibility for a variety of consumer needs are critical. Communication Strategies focuses on linguistic modifications for tactual and restricted field interpreting and strategies for incorporating environmental aspects into the interpreting process.

Students will learn about the diverse roles and responsibilities of individuals working within the Deaf-Blind community, including ethical decisions, communication strategies, and cross-cultural considerations.

These experiential activities include a clear teaching component with instruction in specific alternative techniques and communication modes, using the palm, hands, arms, and other parts of the body as well as techniques for those with limited vision to interpret within their visual range. Students will become familiar with features of the Deaf-Blind community, learn common etiologies of deaf-blindness, learn basic communication and guiding skills for use with Deaf-Blind people, and experience real-life situation facing deaf-blind consumers. This course will provide students with an introductory overview of working with the Deaf-blind community. AMSL 364 Deaf-Blind Interpreting and Interpreting Strategies (3 credits)

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