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Tips to Overcoming Language Barriers

Bridging Language Gaps: The growth in diversity has made language barriers a common challenge for English speaking as well as non-English speaking individuals living in the United States. Bridging language gaps and ensuring communication is facilitated is important in order to provide healthcare, legal advice and various other services to mainstream American society. It’s best…

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Providing Optimal Healthcare for Deaf Patients Through Interpretation Services

Providing Interpretation Services is the Law: Complaints over the quality of sign language interpretation provided for deaf patients has the University of Vermont Medical Center scrambling to find solutions to strengthen their offerings. Patients complained the equipment used for video remote interpretation (VRI) consistently does not work and staff at the hospital are not properly…

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Indigenous Language Barriers Faced in Immigration Court

There’s a Shortage of Court Interpreters Who Speak Indigenous Languages: Illinois immigration courts are falling short at providing professional court interpreters who speak an indigenous Mayan language called Q’anjob’al. The language is spoken by close to 550 people in the Champaign-Urbana area. The National Immigrant Justice Center, reported an increase in Q’anjob’al speaking immigrants over…

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Transcreation Checklist

Transcreation Success: If your company is interested in expanding internationally or perhaps targeting culturally diverse domestic markets, you have probably come across the term transcreation. Transcreation is a language service helping companies gain attention from diverse consumer markets by linguistically, culturally and emotionally appealing to their senses. Creating and adapting a marketing message that transcends…