VIDBE-Q Volume 67 Issue 4
classroom and I asked my interpreter what they were talking about. The teacher
yelled at my interpreter for conveying the message, but I should have had the same
access as my deaf peers.
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Image description: A smiling adult with brown hair, Andrew sits at his corner desk
with two computer monitors in front of him in an office. He faces the camera
wearing glasses, a red dress shirt and dark superman tie.
My best interveners had training. My first two school interveners were
trained by the deafblind specialist on my IEP team (one of the reasons we moved
often). In high school, the school district decided they would create their own
deafblind specialist by sending a teacher of the deaf back to the university to get
