The Arkansas Handbook for Educational Interpreters/Transliterators, Teachers and Administrators—Third Edition 2000, specifies that, “Interpreters in the educational setting must meet or exceed…a minimum Level 3 in Transliterating on the Mid-America Quality Assurance Screening Test (QAST) and Level 2 in Interpreting or minimum QAST Level 3 in Interpreting and QAST Level 2 in Transliterating.”
To help interpreters working in Arkansas public schools meet this requirement, Educational Services for the Hearing Impaired (ESHI), Arkansas Department of Education (ADE), Special Education, will be offering a one-day workshop for educational interpreters, on Saturday, May 8, 2004. Kevin Williams, director of the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment Diagnostic Center at Boys Town National Research Hospital will be presenting. There will be no cost for the workshop, but pre-registration is required.
The workshop will be held in the ESHI conference room in the Adcock Building on the Arkansas School for the Deaf campus. To register, complete the registration form on the attached brochure and return as indicated. Contact Gillis Ward, (501) 324- 9523, gillisw@asd.k12.ar.us or Bonnie Barham (501) 324-9827, bonnieb@asd.k12.ar.us if further information is needed.