Translating and Harmonizing Health Questionnaires: Navigating the Complex Journey
Harmonizing health questionnaires is a complex journey that requires addressing linguistic nuances, cultural sensitivities, and logistical challenges through smooth teamwork. From my experience, successful harmonization hinges on overcoming obstacles like team dynamics, time constraints, communication gaps, and technological limitations. Close collaboration among project managers, developers, and translators is essential to ensure translations are both accurate and culturally respectful.
How Assistive Listening Systems Support Courtroom Interpreting
Interpreters may encounter diverse types of assistive listening systems in courtrooms. Each system helps listeners hear better by delivering clear audio directly to their ears, but the technology used to achieve that goal can vary. This is what courtroom interpreters should know about assistive listening technologies.
Contract Terms: A Freelancer’s Roadmap to Success
As freelancers, we sign contracts with agencies or direct clients. It’s essential that the contracts we sign reflect our values and protect our rights. Understanding contract clauses can help us mitigate risks and limit liability.
ATA’s Public Relations Committee: Promoting the Professions
ATA’s Public Relations Committee focuses on informing and educating the media and public about the roles translators and interpreters play in society and what it means to be a translator or interpreter.
From the President: ATA: The Big Tent of T&I
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From the President-Elect: Weather a Storm by Coming to a Safe Port(land)!
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From the Executive Director: Looking to the Future of ATA: Connection, Community, and Continuing Education
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ATA 2024 Elections: Slate of Candidates Announced
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Recent Independent Contractor Classification Rule Changes and What They Mean for Translators and Interpreters
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Practice Test or Sneak Preview?
In recent years, we in the Certification Program have repeatedly emphasized the value of the practice test as a way to prepare for the…
Breaking Into Book Translation
Recently, a colleague with ample translation experience contacted me with some questions about breaking into book translations. For freelance translators, fiction and non-fiction books…
Newsbriefs: May 30, 2024
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