Professional Interpreter: Equal Footing Training

Begin your career or enhance your skills as a professional interpreter. Equal Footing provides interpreters with the tools they need to place Limited English Proficient (LEP) persons on an equal footing with those who understand English. Course participants will be empowered with a guide to professionally approach each communicative event by observing established strategies, standards and protocols. Specific topics addressed in this course will include the fundamentals and modes of interpreting, the role of the interpreter, and the Codes of Ethics proposed by the International Medical Interpreters Association (IMIA) and the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care (NCIHC). Participants will practice and implement interpreting techniques in small groups, listen to and critique recordings of interpreting scripts, and record and critique their own renditions. Students who complete all course requirements will receive a certificate of completion and will be prepared to sit for the Certified Medical Interpreter and the Certified Healthcare Interpreter national certification exams.Program requirements require proof of language proficiency in English and a second language. Please contact (847) 543-2615 to receive a list of acceptable proofs. The required $60 textbook can be purchased from the instructor on the first day of class.