Associate degrees in Education + Teaching of Individuals with Hearing Impairments Including Deafness: A program that focuses on the design of educational services for children or adults with hearing impairments including deafness which adversely affect their educational performance, and that may prepare individuals to teach such students. Includes instruction in identifying students with hearing impairments, including deafness, developing individual education plans, teaching and supervising hearing-impaired students, counseling, and applicable laws and policies.
Students prepare for jobs in hearing aid fitters and dispensers or audiometric technicians. Technical content includes professional terminology, anatomy, physiology, fitting and servicing hearing aids and patient/family education.
This program is approved by the Washington State Board of Hearing and Speech. Applicants for licensure as a hearing instrument fitter / dispenser are required to meet certain requirements which include successful completion...
The A.A. degree in American Sign Language are intended for those students desiring to develop language skills allowing them to converse with d/Deaf adults. As with any second language, ASL is an asset in supplementing other fields of study such as education, nursing, or other service professions.
Deaf studies explores the language, culture, history and contemporary issues of Deaf people. Fundamental to our program are both competency in American Sign Language and a desire to work with Deaf people and not for them. This program prepares students, both deaf and hearing, who are interested in a professional career working with Deaf, hard-of-hearing or late-deafened persons to transfer to a four-year college or university in the field of their...
C-Print program provides a foundation in Deaf studies as well as specialized workforce skills. C-Print™ is a computerized notetaking system developed at the National Technical Institute of the Deaf and is widely used in educational settings. Students in this option are prepared to work upon graduation as an entry-level freelance C-Print™ captionist.
This Deaf Studies option is designed to meet the needs of students who wish to learn about deafness and sign language in depth but do not wish to become professional interpreters. Although the Deaf Studies Option is similar to the Interpreter Education program, it does not require that students take courses specifically designed to enhance or teach interpreting skills. Instead, the Deaf Studies Option offers a more general education in liberal arts.
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The Deaf Studies program prepares students to work in a variety of situations with the deaf community. Students will obtain a strong understanding, receptively and expressively, of American Sign Language, deaf culture and history.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES - Graduates of this program will have the opportunity to:
Acquire ASL vocabulary relevant to day-to-day discourse, academic topics, medical issues, financial issues, familial issues, political...
Upon completion of the program, students will have entry-level professional skills as Sign Language Interpreters and Translators. It is our mission to improve the quality and quantity of interpreting services provided to individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing and deaf-blind.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES - Graduates of this program will have the opportunity to:
Demonstrate conversational American Sign Language skills at a competency level equivalent...
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