Doreen Simons, a certified deaf interpreter, uses a video remote interpreting (VRI) service from her Farmington home. Melanie Stengel Credit: Melanie Stengel / C_HIT.org Deaf residents report frequent ...
Every day in health clinics across the country, bilingual employees step into exam rooms to help patients and providers ...
Debbie Lesser is a catalyst, facilitating crucial conversations taking place in often highly sensitive situations. As a certified medical interpreter for one of the largest health systems in the ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Some professions are misunderstood and one of them is sign language interpreting. Just because you know sign language doesn't mean you can qualify as an interpreter. Columbia College ...
POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) - The United States Department of Education, through its Rehabilitation Services Administration has awarded $2.1 million to Idaho State University researcher Elizabeth ...
The health care industry is a critical sector that helps save people’s lives. Sometimes, medical professionals and patients have communication barriers that can hinder that process. However, the great ...
Among many factors that determine an individual’s access to healthcare, the language of medicine stresses a fundamental distinction between communication and transaction. To access healthcare is to ...
Sign language interpreting can be a lucrative profession, depending on location, level of certification, experience, and the sector in which one operates.