General Knowledge
Hearing Loss
Acronyms
ASL Vocabulary
CPC Tenets
100

When people adjust their language and the way they talk based on whom they are speaking to, they are shifting _________.

What is register?

100

How many types of hearing loss are there?

What is 3?

Conductive, Sensorineural, Mixed

(4 including auditory processing disorder)

100

PSE

What is Pidgen Signed English?

100

Illustrative behavior: Share assignment-related information only on a confidential and "as-needed" basis (e.g. supervisors, interpreter team members, members of the educational team, hiring entities). 

What is Confidentiality 1.1?

200

Which of the following as been shown to correlate most highly with the rate of occurrence of interpretation miscues?

a) clozure skills              c) process time

b) concentration            d) attention span

What is process time?

200

Type of hearing loss that occurs when there is a problem conducting sound waves anywhere along the route through the outer ear, tympanic membrane (eardrum), or middle ear (ossicles).

What is a conductive hearing loss?

200

HIPPA

What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?

200

Illustrative Behavior: Consult with appropriate persons regarding the interpreting situation to determine issues  such as placement and adaptations necessary to interpret effectively. 

What is Conduct 3.1?

300

Systems for manually representing English were developed primarily to ....

What is teach English to Deaf children?

300

A combination of conductive and sensorineural hearing loss. 

What is a mixed hearing loss?

300

SHHH - an organization that provides information about hearing loss, communication, assistive listening devices, and communication strategies for oral Deaf persons.

What is Self Help for the Hard of Hearing?

300

Illustrative Behavior: Render the message faithfully by conveying the content and spirit of what is being communicated, using language most readily understood by consumers, and correcting errors discreetly and expeditiously. 

What is Professionalism 2.3?

400

During an interpretation for a large audience, the lighting should...

a) be directed at the interpreter's face

b) come from more than one angle

What is come from more than one angle?

400

What type of hearing loss involves damage to the inner ear (cochlea) or to the nerve pathways from the inner ear to the brain. 

What is a sensorineural hearing loss?

400

SSP

What is Support Service Provider?

400

Illustrative Behavior: Facilitate communication access and equality, and support the full interaction and independence of consumers. 

What is Respect for Consumers 4.4?

500

The process of rendering a message from one written language  is known as...

a)interpretation

b) translation

c) transliteration

What is translation?

500

An auditory disorder that is not the result of higher-order, more global deficit such as autism, intellectual disabilities, attention deficits, or similar impairments.

What is Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)?

500

AADB - is a national consumer organization of, by, and for DeafBlind Americans and their supporters. 

What is American Association of the Deaf-Blind?

500

Illustrative Behavior: Work cooperatively with team members through consultation before assignments regarding logistics, providing professional and courteous assistance when asked and monitoring the accuracy of the message while functioning in the role of the support interpreter. 

What is Respect for Colleagues 5.2?