Deaf Ed Interpreter

2025-26 Deaf Ed Interpreter Midwest City - Del City School District Special Services - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Open in Google Maps

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Starting Date: Immediately

JOB DESCRIPTION: DEAF ED. INTERPRETER

SALARY

SCHEDULE:

SCHEDULES HHII, HHIII

DEPARTMENT: SPECIAL SERVICES

FLSA STATUS: NON-EXEMPT

SAFETY-SENSITIVE: YES

POSITION SUMMARY:

The deaf education Interpreter is responsible for the implementation of district policies and procedures in compliance with IDEA.

The Educational Interpreter provides interpreting and other support services to students with a hearing impairment who are receiving all or part of their education in classrooms with children who hear. The educational interpreter’s primary function is to facilitate communication among students with hearing impairments, their hearing peers, the classroom teacher, and other personnel in the school system. Other duties that may be performed when not required to provide interpreting include tutoring, note taking, test reading, and participating in meetings with the transdisciplinary team.

The day-to-day activities, and consequently the responsibilities vary across educational levels and environments.

Qualification Requirements:

• The ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• The ability to interpret/transliterate at a normal conversational rate where students with hearing impairments or parents are present utilizing American Sign Language.
• The interpreter must be registered with the Oklahoma State Department of Education educational interpreter registry
• QAST 3 or above or EIPA 3.5 or above or National certification
• Interpreter must meet 10 hours of CEU every year-5 hours of education related and 1 hour of Ethics

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR SKILLS:

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos. Ability to compose and write grammatically correct correspondence and memos.

REASONING ABILITY:

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, schedule form, or blueprint form.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, climb or balance, and…