CDI flashcards
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- Certified Deaf Interpreter
- A Deaf interpreter holding the RID CDI credential, distinct from a general assumption that every Deaf person is certified or qualified for every setting.
- Assignment assessment
- Review of the actual languages, goals, access conditions, demands, and professional skills needed before and during an interpreting service.
- Communication repertoire
- The combination of language varieties, modalities, gestures, literacy resources, and other meaningful practices a person may use in context.
- Consumer agency
- The participant’s ability to express preferences and make their own decisions within the encounter, supported rather than replaced by interpreting.
- Nonmanual information
- Linguistic or discourse information carried through relevant facial, head, or body features, not automatically reducible to extra emotion.
- Register
- A way of using language in relation to purpose, situation, and social relationships, which can affect how a message is understood.
- Deixis
- Reference interpreted through a contextual viewpoint, such as who, where, or when an expression identifies within the actual discourse.
- Written gloss
- A textual representation used to discuss signed language that may omit spatial, temporal, and nonmanual features of the original event.
- Processing time
- Time used to receive, analyze, retain, and produce meaning, balanced with memory and interaction rather than treated as an error by itself.
- Reference tracking
- Maintaining which person, place, object, or idea each expression refers to across a message, preventing unintended mergers or reversals.
- Transparent repair
- An appropriately attributed correction or clarification that restores communication without hiding material uncertainty or inventing content for smoothness.
- Relay interpretation
- An arrangement in which a message passes through coordinated language stages, making the quality and clarity of each feed important.
- Confidentiality
- Protection of assignment-related information according to professional and applicable legal obligations, including appropriate limits, records handling, and authorized sharing.
- Conflict of interest
- A private or professional interest or relationship that may interfere, or appear to interfere, with responsibilities in the interpreting situation.
- Scope boundary
- The distinction between interpreting and other tasks such as clinical diagnosis, legal advice, evaluation, or deciding a participant’s substantive choice.
- Professional development
- Ongoing learning, practice, feedback, and reflection directed toward maintaining and improving competence for the actual work an interpreter undertakes.
- Individual access preference
- A person’s stated workable arrangement for language and sensory access, considered with the setting rather than inferred from a diagnostic label.
- Tactile communication
- Communication accessed through touch using the person’s agreed approach, requiring appropriate competence, consent, positioning, and ongoing feedback.
- Environmental information
- Relevant information about surroundings, people, and interaction that may support participation when not directly accessible through the person’s sensory channels.
- Tracking
- An access strategy some people use with remaining vision and agreed physical contact to help follow signing, not a universal DeafBlind preference.
- Team preconference
- A planning discussion that establishes relevant roles, language pathways, logistics, correction signals, and other arrangements needed for effective joint work.
- Support interpreter
- A team member contributing to accurate service through agreed monitoring, preparation, feed, and assistance rather than being treated as an inactive observer.
- Role attribution
- Clear identification of whose message or professional intervention is being conveyed, preventing interpreter process statements from being mistaken for consumer content.
- Continuity handover
- Appropriate transfer of relevant access and message information between professionals, with confidentiality protected and unresolved issues accurately identified.