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Jonathan Weeks

INTERPRETING

Sign Language Interpreters and Behavioral Ethics

There is a critical gap between the code of conduct and current practice for sign language interpreters when ethical decision-making is tested through the point of behavioral ethics. It is essential to fill this gap and strengthen ethical decision-making but…

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How Can Sign Language Interpreters Stay Inspired?

 Motivation plays an important role in our day-to-day life. Everyone needs to be passionate about giving the best of themselves. But how this fire should be kept alive? Sign language Interpreters love their profession, but sometimes they feel low due…

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Mental Health Settings and Interpreters

Sometimes sign language interpreters come across situations with which they are not equipped to deal. Let us understand a situation by an incident that happened in Friendlyville, a city with a midsized population and with a deaf population of two…

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Role of Interpreters in Multilingual Voting

Voting is a right of every citizen; although the Voting Right act came into existence in 1965, states are still working to place the systems efficiently to fulfill the goal of giving the ability to vote to everyone. The change…

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Resources for L.O.T.S. Interpreters

Many interpreters want to learn new languages to open a world of opportunities for them. A friend of mine, who is also a staff interpreter at the Supreme Court, is one of them. He left his job and moved to…

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Requirements of Video Remote Interpreting

Video Remote Interpreting is becoming extremely popular and a perfect blend of humanity and technology. Now interpreting agencies are widely using this technique to offer language services to clients.  There are certain requirements to make the VRI session successful. Internet…

DEAF COMMUNITY

New Opportunities for Deaf Around the World

Hearing ability is important to language and speech development because it causes a delay that further forms communication barriers. In recent years, certain policies and innovations have provided solutions to many problems making the life of deaf people easier. Internet…