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Skills and Qualifications Required for Interpreters per CLAS Standards
CLAS Standard 7: “Ensure the competence of individuals providing language assistance” The Cultural and Linguistic Appropriate Services Standards published by the Office of Minority Health, US Department of Health and Human Services in April of [...]
ASTM Standards – Legal applications
The National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act (NTTAA) was signed into law March 7, 1996. The Act made a direct impact on the development of new industrial and technology standards by requiring that all Federal [...]
Culture Conversations
I have developed a series of cultural conversations to help immigrants and members of the host society understand each other better and interact more effectively. This Proposal for Culture Conversations outlines my experience with Cultural Conversations. [...]
Cultural competence
The following are three different ways to define cultural competence or competence in intercultural communication. In today’s environment diversity training is very common, and it is important to understand what aspects of this are relevant [...]
Humor in interpreting, translation and life
Check out this video, “Qué difícil es hablar el español” with English subtitles. 5000 words… the frustrations of unreasonable deadlines for translators. Es preferible reír que llorar. You just have to take life with a [...]
CLAS Standards
This week I was reading the CLAS Standards. CLAS stands for Culturally and Linguistic Appropriate Services. I went to the Blueprint on the CLAS site, and downloaded the Blueprint. The full Blueprint is available for [...]