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NIC unit 1
Term | Definition |
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RID | Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf |
NAD | National association of the Deaf |
MCE | Manually coded English |
SEE | Signed exact English |
AVLIC | Association of visual language interpreters of Canada |
NIC | National Interpreter Certification |
CDI | Certified Deaf Interpreter |
CI | Certificate of Interpreting |
CT | Certificate of Transliterating |
OTC | Oral Transliteration Certificate |
SC:L | Special Certification Legal |
MCSC | Masters Comprehensive Skills Certificate |
CSC | Comprehensive Skills Certificate |
IC | Interpreting Certificate |
TC | Total Communication |
QA | Quality Assurance |
EIPA | Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment |
EdiTOR | Educational Interpreters and Transliterators |
DOE | Departments of Education |
LSQ | Lalangue de signes Qubecoise |
IDEA | Individuals with Disabilities Education Act |
ADA | Americans with Disabilities Act |
ASL | American Sign Language |
LRE | Least Restrictive Environment |
IEP | Individual Education Plan |
BEI | Board for Evaluation Interpreters |
ITP | Interpreter Training Program |
IEP | Individualized Education Plan |
SSS | Sign Supported Speech |
CASE | Conceptually Accurate Signed English |
CEU | Continuing Education Unit |
VRS | Video Relay Service |
TRS | Telecommunication Relay Service |
VRI | Video Relay Interpreting |
FCC | Federal Communications commission |
LTA | Local Test Administratiors |
NTID | National Technical Institute of the Deaf |
PSE | Pidgeon Signed English |
LOVE | Linguistics Of Visual English |
CPC | Code of Proffessional Conduct |
CODA | Children of Deaf Adults |
HVO | High Visual Orientation |
HLAA | Hearing Loss Assocciation of America |
DPN | Deaf President Now |
SSP | Sighted Support Personnel |
WASLI | World Association of Sign Language Interpreter |
WFD | World Federation of the Deaf |
SPP | Standard Practice Papers |
NMM | Non Manual Markers |
Morpheme | The smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of a langauge |
Phoneme | The smallest unit in the sound system of a language |
Bound Morpheme | A grammatical unit that never occurs by itself, but is always attached to another morpheme |
Morphology | The study of patterns of word formation in a particular language, including inflection, derivation and composition |
Semantics | The meaning, or the interpretation of the meaning, of a word, sign, sentence, etc |
Pragmatics | The analysis of language in terms of the situational context within which utterances are made, including the knowledge and beliefs of the speaker and the relation between speaker and listener |
Lexicon | The total inventory of morphemes in a given language |
Prosody | The stress and intonation patterns of an utterance |
Pronominalize | To replace a noun or noun phrase with a prnoun |
Discourse | Communication of thoughts by words; talk; conversation longer than a sentence |