Specifications include, but are not limited to: Sign language interpreting services for the Department. 4.3.1. Contractor shall provide sign language interpreters for participants attending trainings, advisory meetings, general meetings dispute/resolution meetings, and events related to deaf education that are funded by ESSU grant projects. Participants in ESSU training sessions may be a deaf parent, deaf student or a deaf professional/practitioner. 4.3.2. Contractor shall provide and use simultaneous and consecutive English to sign language and sign language to English interpreting services in a face-to-face model, under the direction of the Department. The Department will not accept remote interpreting services. 4.3.3. Contractor shall provide interpreters who hold a current Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) Certification for which sign language services are requested.