We have defined the site and are at work on infrastructure, and content development.  Where there is not yet flesh, you will see our bones.  We admit to a long road to completion ahead.  Some days, completion feels unfathomable in terms of its distance beyond the horizon; yet, we remain happily obsessed with it.

TerpTopics.com is a work in progress, and will be for quite some time to come.  We apologize for the site's inadequacies while welcoming constructive and thoughtful feedback from visitors.

We believe all Internet site developers and editors have working assumptions about their respective audiences because doing so is practical.  Ours are detailed here in the interest of disclosure.

TerpTopics.com is intended for use by potential and new American Sign Language interpreters or signers.  This being the case, certain assumptions prevail.  It is assumed that you (the reader) are hearing and generally able to perform the tasks required of a professional sign language interpreter.  Your native language is English or you are a fluent user of English.  You have more than a passing interest in ASL and in interpreting, and would like to know as much about them as possible.

Further, you understand that TerpTopics.com does not offer itself as a stand-alone authority or resource, and encourages you to look everywhere, ask everyone, and read and learn everything about ASL and professional sign language interpreting, from as many resources as you can find.

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We have tried to make site navigation as simple as possible.  If you are an experienced 'Netizen, you will have no trouble at all.  If you are relatively new to the whole finding-information-by-computer thing, here are a few tips:

 1. To go to a topic page, use the navigation links that are in the left-hand margin.

 2. View additional or detailed information by clicking one of the sub-topics found in the navigation table on some general topic pages;

 3. Some pages have a hyper-linked alphabetic or topic index.  From the index, click a letter or topic to move quickly and directly to it.

 4. Many pages (especially the LINKS page!) have hyper-links that will take you away from this TerpTopics.com.  To return to TerpTopics.com, use your browser's BACK feature or simply type www.TerpTopics.com into your browser's URL address field and then hit your ENTER key to return this WELCOME page.  

As has been previously noted, this site is under development, which means that some content has been added, some has only been planned, and some has been started but is not yet completed.  We acknowledge that readers might experience frustration at finding partially completed pages.  We apologize and assure you that we are diligently working on adding content.

Visitors are not asked to register and no personally identifying information is collected through the use of cookies or other stealthy means.  No email addresses are secretly collected, compiled, used, sold, or given away.

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TerpTopics.com is not intended for use in place of consulting an audiologist, physician, or other healthcare provider, nor should it be used as such.  We are not healthcare professionals.  If you are seeking professional healthcare advice, diagnosis, or treatment, you will not find it here.  If you are seeking professional audiological advice, diagnosis, or treatment, you will not find it here.  The same goes for psychological advice, psychiatric advice ... you get the idea.

TerpTopics.com content contributors are hearing professional interpreters, unless otherwise identified.  Though we try to avoid them, honest mistakes may occur.  If you think you may have found an error (even if you're not sure), please tell us.

The provision of links or other contact information to sources outside of TerpTopics.com is for informational purposes only, and cannot be construed as a recommendation, or in support of the content, approaches, theories, philosophies, intent, perspective, or anything you may find once you leave TerpTopics.com.  That said, if you come upon linked content that you experience as objectionable (immoral, illegal, prejudiced, abusive, lewd, etc.), please tell us.

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