What is a Community Interpreter?
A community interpreter is a trained professional communicator that enables people who are not fluent speakers of the dominant or official language of the country (in our case, English) to communicate with the providers of public services so as to facilitate full and equal access to legal, health, education, government, and social services.
Related Questions
- At my middle school, sometimes I ask a DHH student to stay after class for a minute or two, but the interpreter is unable to stay longer than a few seconds because s/he has to dash to the next class. How can I speak privately with a DHH student when the interpreter always has to leave?
- If a teacher endangers a student, or otherwise breaks a local, state, or federal law, how will the interpreter handle that?
- I want to become an interpreter. What is the process?
