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Sign Language Interpreter and American Sign Language (ASL) Resources and Articles
EIPA Basics
What is the EIPA? The EIPA (Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment) is an evaluation tool designed and developed in 1991 by Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. The EIPA focuses directly as an evaluation of the skills and effectiveness of...
Boundaries: We All Have Issues
How Our Personalities Shape Our Interpreting – Part 2
Laws and Tax Incentives
COVID-19 Interpreting: The New Normal
COVID-19 Interpreting: The New Normal You studied and practiced and became a nationally certified Professional Sign Language Interpreter or you have an EIPA. Maybe, you have been interpreting for 30 years or perhaps you just graduated from an Interpreter Training...
NAD-RID Code of Professional Conduct: for Sign Language Interpreters
How Our Personalities Shape Our Interpreting – Part 1
Remote Interpreting: The New Normal
Remote Interpreting: The New Normal Remote interpreting has become more widespread in our industry since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Whether you have been interpreting remotely for years, for months, or just a few days, there are some best practices that can improve...
Compassionate Professionalism – End of Life Interpreting
What is your client doing at this stage? Your client is dying and probably knows it. They are experiencing a whole array of uncomfortable physical symptoms. They are drowsy and unresponsive some of the time and confused about time and place and even who is in the room...
How My High School Foreign Language Credit, Became My Career as a Sign Language Interpreter
“Do you have Deaf family? How did you learn ASL?” These are the two most common questions I get when walking into an assignment with a Deaf client that I have never interpreted for previously. My answer to the first question is no. My answer to the second question is...
Secondary Traumatic Stress – The High Cost of Caring
What is Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS)? Secondary Traumatic Stress (and its kin terms: Empathic Distress, Vicarious Trauma, and Secondary Victimization) is: Emotional, physical, or spiritual distress precipitated by exposure to people or animals who are experiencing...