Interpreters

Rocket Launched

Rocket getting ready for launch

As an interpreter, I am always looking for a visual way to help the deaf student understand vocabulary. Sometimes education in other classes will have the best opportunity's, for giving visual examples...EVER!! Here we were discussing extreme animals, that are the loudest, I needed to explain to the student that "est" means MOST, so we would sign... Most Loud instead of "loudest"...in SEE we could add the ending of the word with the added sign. The student I am working with is excited to know both ways of sign...then picks the one liked most. This sentence really has no meaning...but adding a visual, of a rocket launching, shows the power, which helps the understanding of the noise. We were lucky that the science class were working on their very own rocket launch...we got to see, on a small scale what it looks like...then using the Internet we also explored a real rocket launch. What a great visual for understanding!!