The Community Interpreter: A Comprehensive Training Manual

About this book

The most comprehensive training manual in the U.S. for community interpreters this book supports a 40- to 60-hour certificate program and can be used for self study and to prepare for medical interpreter certification. It teaches how to interpret in medical educational and social service settings. Used in a growing number of academic programs as a textbook the manual covers an overview of the profession national ethics and standards of practice interpreter certification language access laws professional skills (pre-session to post-session) positioning and terminology modes of interpreting steps for sight translation strategies for intervention how to perform cultural mediation and many other skills and topics.