2015 Arkansas Code
Title 20 - Public Health And Welfare
Subtitle 2 - Health And Safety
Chapter 14 - Individuals With Disabilities
Subchapter 8 - Interpreters between Hearing Individuals and Individuals who are Deaf, Deafblind, Hard of Hearing, or Oral Deaf
§ 20-14-802 - Definitions.

As used in this subchapter:

(1) "Cued speech" means the system of handshapes that represent groups of consonant sounds and hand placements that represent groups of vowel sounds that is used with natural speech to represent a visual model of spoken language;

(2) "Deaf individual" means an individual who has a documented hearing loss so severe that the individual is unable to process speech and language through hearing, with or without amplification;

(3) "Deaf interpreter" means a deaf individual who facilitates communication between another deaf person and a licensed qualified interpreter or between two (2) or more deaf persons;

(4) "Deafblind individual" means an individual who has a combined loss of vision and hearing that prevents the individual's vision or hearing from being used as a primary source for accessing information;

(5) "Hard of hearing individual" means an individual who has a hearing loss, may primarily use visual communication, and may use assistive devices;

(6) "Interpret" means to provide language equivalency between a hearing individual and an individual who is deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or oral deaf using techniques that include without limitation:

(A) American Sign Language;

(B) English-based sign language;

(C) Cued speech; and

(D) Oral interpreting;

(7) "Interpreting agency" means an entity that provides qualified interpreter services for a fee;

(8) "Licensed provisional interpreter" means an individual who is deaf licensed under this subchapter;

(9) "Licensed qualified interpreter" means an individual licensed under this subchapter;

(10) "Oral deaf individual" means an individual whose sense of hearing is nonfunctional for the purpose of communication and whose primary method of communication is speech reading and spoken English; and

(11) "Oral interpreting" means the use of oral transliteration with special techniques to make the English language visible for persons who communicate as speech readers.