How to Perform Legal Interpreting in Medical and Community Settings

Course length:  2 hours  

Course access period: 60 days from purchase date

Once purchased, course access cannot be paused.

Course completion requirements: Pass one exit test (score of 70% or above).

Certificate: Downloadable certificate available immediately upon passing the exit test.

CEUs:

• Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI): 2 CCHI CE hours
• Maryland Court Interpreter Program: 2 CE credits
• Ontario Council on Community Interpreting: 2 OCCI PDUs

Learning objectives:

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Identify three key differences between legal and community (including medical) interpreting.
• Discuss a six-step protocol to self-assess if you are competent to perform legal interpreting in community settings.

What you will get:

• Your video instructor: Marjory A. Bancroft, MA
• 9 interactive exercises, including a legal interpreting overview quiz and a role play in 9 language pairs
• Access to two films that show spoken language-legal interpreting in a police department and discuss signed-language legal interpreting for police
• A comparison of legal and community/medical interpreting ethics
• An overview of interpreting for worker’s compensation
• Sections from The Community Interpreter®: An International Textbook and The Medical Interpreter: A Foundation Textbook for Medical Interpreting
• Course completion certificate

 How this lesson will improve your practice:

You will:

• Know if legal interpreting is part of community interpreting.
• Understand the relationship between court and legal interpreting.
• Be able to define legal interpreting and understand key similarities and differences between legal and community (including medical) interpreting.
• Know how to assess whether an assignment is legal interpreting, community/medical interpreting or both.
• Have a protocol to self-assess whether you should perform a legal interpreting assignment and what to do if you accept it.