Like most other professions, it is often what you are NOT taught in a classroom that makes you a successful interpreter. But what are the things that seasoned, successful interpreters wish they’d known when first starting their careers?
You’ve taken your 40-hour community interpreter training. Perhaps you’re recently certified. Maybe you have several years (or more) of community interpreting under your belt. You have worked diligently on your interpreting skills. But what about everything else? What are the practical things a mentor would teach you?
In this approachable webinar, you will be introduced to Cynthia Mauleón (more on her remarkable career below) and what she sees as the practical side of interpreting: how to create a support system, how to build your reference collection, what to wear (or not wear) to an interpreting assignment, how to take care of yourself on the job.
About the presenter: Cynthia Mauleón, the author of the Terminology Workbook for Medical Interpreters, has nearly thirty years of experience as an interpreter, including time working with Cuban refugees for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, interpreting for a medical team in a Mayan village, as an interpreter in education settings, a staff interpreter and interpreter supervisor for a regional trauma hospital.
Learning Objectives
1. Identify several non-linguistic tools for the interpreter "toolbox"
2. Identify several elements of an interpreter self-care plan.
3. Understand how to create an interpreter resource network 4. Describe a basic set of interpreter reference tools, including several websites.
This webinar has been approved for 1 ATA CEP, 1 CCHI CE hour, 0.1 IMIA/NBCMI CEUs and 0.1 RID CEUs.
No, CCC is an organization dedicated solely to interpreter and cultural competence training. Our mission is language access. However, we do provide graduates of The Community Interpreter® with a list of nearby language companies and public organizations that employ interpreters. We also occasionally send out job postings to our program graduates and/or e-newsletter subscribers at the request of other organizations.
Cross-Cultural Communications is the leading international training agency in the U.S. devoted to community interpreting, educational interpreting, healthcare interpreting and cultural competence. It is also the only organization that licenses community interpreters across the U.S. and in other countries. We regularly train bilingual staff as well as contract interpreters. We also provide training and consulting services to private companies, non-profits and government agencies. Our programs are grounded in a mixture of theory and practical, hands-on activities.
The Community Interpreter® International, or TCII, is a 40-hour certificate training program for interpreters who are just starting out or those experienced interpreters who are looking for a recognized qualification. Subjects covered include the interpreting code of ethics and standards of practice in order to give participants a solid grounding in the profession. This is complemented by practical, hands-on activities such as role-plays and interactive group discussions. The program fulfills the 40-hour training requirements considered by many (certifying bodies employers and industry associations) to be the minimum needed to entire the field.
At the moment, a combination of two CCC programs fulfills this requirement: Medical Terminology for Interpreters (7.5 hours) and The Community Interpreter® International. Since TCII is open to all community interpreters and the subject matter covers education and social services as well as medical interpreting, at the end of each TCII session any participant who is seeking medical interpreter certification will be given a letter from CCC, stating the number of hours that can be counted towards this requirement. Typically 34-36 hours count towards the 40 hour requirement.
Yes, although the CE credits offered for each program will vary according to course length and content. Our programs are currently approved for continuing education credits by the following organizations:
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