Ethical Dilemmas for ASL Interpreters

You are interpreting at a job training center.  You are shadowing your client while another student teachers her a job.  Your client works e...

Your client is preparing to take a hands on test. The instructor explains what needs to be done for prep then walks off. The Deaf client ask...

You are interpreting at a job training center. Your Deaf client starts chatting with you about her personal life. It's not her break and...

You are interpreting in English class. Your kids are to silently read a poem on birch trees. The poem is set up in one tall skinny stanza w...

Today you really enjoyed your Deaf client. You understood everything they said, they were nice and polite. You may never be BFFs with this ...

Your at work. Your client is set up and won't need you until break. So you pull out a book and read. Then your phone vibrates. --you sl...

You are interpreting a state test. Math, to be more specific, but without giving anything away. There is no interpreting actually happening...

You lent a book to one of your clients. --ok? --turns out they love the book. Does that make it ok? --suppose they don't give it ba...

We've discussed the dilemmas around teachers leaving classrooms. Suppose, now, you arrive to your class and your regular chair is missi...

Your students are assigned to write a poem praising something. After you interpret the assignment, you suggest writing about your favorite ...

You are interpreting in a drug rehab program. You are interpreting a movie (no captions!! Ug!!) which you find to be overtly simple and pre...

You gave a book to one of your clients. A novel. Because the two of you have been discussing books. You bought it used on a dollar shelf, a...

A hearing student comments-loudly-that she is planning on cheating on the test tomorrow. You interpret for your student who advises the che...

Class is over. Your student left. You are packing your bag. The professor comes up to you and asks, "can you tell your student x, y, a...

You work with a client almost every morning and she is very chatty with you. She often tells you about the interpreters who interpret for h...

Your team goes on and on about the interpreting agency that placed you both on your current job. You share a few choice experiences you hav...

At the end of your assignment your team offers you a ride home. Thankful not to have to wait for public transportation or call someone for ...

You team the last period of a high school class. You are the 2nd team on and half way through class you come in to relieve your team. Afte...

What do you do if your interpretation of a song is recorded and posted on You Tube? Or, as in this case, you post your final on You Tube. ht...

You interpret in a high school on-going. During earth science you have a team as the material is difficult and the teacher lectures the e...