This week's "book" is a report.

It hardly gets cooler than this: the report about a groundbreaking 60-hour training program came to us from the indomitable Michal Schuster, who with her colleague trains medical interpreters in Israel. The program trained speakers of Tigrinya to interpret for asylum seeks in healthcare. It covered:

Structure and function of the Israeli medical system, health rights, a hospital tour, basic human anatomy and physiology, physician-patient interviews, common medical issues, treatments and procedure, ethics, skills and best practices, medical terminology, emotional aspects, intercultural issues and more. It's a report on a special program well worth comparing to other programs in the field.

Read the report here.  

Healing Voices: Interpreting for Survivors of Torture, War Trauma and Sexual Violence is an internationally recognized training for trauma-informed interpreting. It takes place May 4-8 in Columbia, Maryland from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (closing at 12:30 p.m. on May 8).

This program will also help you if you interpret for refugees, domestic violence and other survivors of major trauma. It is the most specialized training of its kind in the United States.  

Healing Voices focuses on mental health interpreting, trauma and torture, special techniques for interpreting for refugees and trauma survivors, reducing vicarious trauma, building a wellness plan, how to intervene without re-traumatizing survivors, cultural concerns, domestic violence and sexual assault, legal interpreting issues and much more.

A limited number of tuition scholarships are available for refugee interpreters.  See the flier for details about the program and the registration form to register.

For more information contact vol2@voice-of-love.org or call 410 707 9088.

Come to the Ninth International Conference on Language Teacher Education

Do you...

    *    Teach pre-service K-12 language teachers?

    *    Prepare TAs to teach language at the post-secondary level?

    *    Provide professional development for practicing language teachers at any level?

Then come to this Changes and Challenges in Language Teacher Education conference:

May 14-16, 2015

The Commons Hotel

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

This unique biennial conference focuses on providing professional development for language teachers. For more information click here.  

Check Out SEMIA's June Conference for Medical Interpreters

The South Eastern Medical Interpreters Association will hold its annual conference June 5 and 6 at University of Louisville KY. CEUS for CMI, CHI, RID and ATA. Registration details available here.

Erika Kumarc courtesy of The Issaquah Press

So you think you know your terminology, and its cultures, for matters related to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders and those still questioning their sexual orientation? This article may open your eyes-and have you reaching to expand your terminology glossaries on the topic.

How would you interpret, translate or explain (for example) pansexuality, homoromanticism, aromanticism, intersex or cisgender? If you don't know the answers, you may want to check out this informative article by Erika Kumar.