Through the NCIHC Home for Trainers Webinar Initiative, you’ll find tips and strategies to help you improve training content, methods, and techniques. 
We host a webinar every other month and each webinar features interesting and timely material selected and presented by leaders in the field of interpreter training.  (Guest trainers in the Home for Trainers webinar series retain copyright to all material and content created for their respective webinars.)

 


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The next Home For Trainers webinar will be held on January 16, 2025, at 4:30 PM US-Eastern.

Cognitive Interpreting Skills Testing and Applications for Training Programs

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#66 Transform Your Training with AI: Smarter Workflows for Better Results

Speaker: Nora Diaz

Live broadcast date: November 6, 2024

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours; IMIA 0.15 CEUs; RID 0.15 hours

Brief description: This webinar presents a range of AI tools and tasks to streamline interpreter trainers’ processes, optimize trainers’ time, and improve learner outcomes. 

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#64 Teaching Ethics, Standards of Practice, and Decision-Making: An Interactive Roundtable

Speakers: Analia Lang, BA, CHI-Spanish, Jessica Goldhirsch, LICSW, MSW, MPH, Laurence Jay-Rayon Ibrahim Aibo, PhD, and Mark Halley, PhD, NIC, CoreCHI-P™

Live broadcast date: July 30, 2024

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours; IMIA 0.15 CEUs; RID 0.15 hours

Brief description: This webinar addresses practical considerations for teaching ethics, standards of practice and decision-making in a variety of teaching/learning contexts. 

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#63 Teaching translation for community and public service settings

Speaker: Mustapha Taibi, Associate Professor

Live broadcast date: May 22, 2024

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, IMIA .015 CEUs, RID 0.15 CEUs

Brief description: This workshop will focus on the development of translation skills for community/public service translators. 

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#62 Recover, Retire, Revise: A Retrospective on Interpreter Training in the Post-Pandemic Era

Panelists: Christa A. Moran NIC, M.Ed, CoreCHI-P, Tamas Farkas CoreCHI-P, and Vonessa Costa, CoreCHI-P; Moderator: Jaime Fatás-Cabeza MA, USCCI, CHI-Spanish

Live broadcast date: March 20, 2024

CEU approvals: NONE

Brief description: This webinar examines how interpreter trainers adapted their programs during the pandemic and how those changes continue to shape current training practices. Panel discussion provides insight into the ongoing relevance of these adaptations.

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#61 Medical Interpretation for End-of-Life Issues

Speaker: Eric Hardt, MD

Live broadcast date: December 17, 2023

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, IMIA .015 CEUs

Brief description: This webinar focuses on interpreting for end-of-life decision-making and care.

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#60 Interpreting for the Geriatric Patient

Speaker: Eric Hardt, MD

Live broadcast date: October 17, 2023

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, IMIA .015 CEUs

Brief description: This webinar focuses on aspects related to interpreting in geriatric healthcare settings.

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#59 Don't Stay Silent! Vocal Health for Interpreters

Speakers: Elizabeth Guinle-Salter MAT&I, CMI, NAATI and Sarah L. Schneider, MS, CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow

Live broadcast date: August 18, 2023

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, IMIA .015 CEUs

Brief description: This webinar focuses on vocal health and on ways to teach interpreters about vocal health.

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#58 Instructional Design Basics for Training Interpreters

Speaker: Melissa Williams, Ph.D.

Live broadcast date: June 13, 2023

CEU approvals: NONE

Brief description: This webinar introduces interpreter trainers to concepts and principles of instructional design. 

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#57 Public Speaking for Trainers

Speakers: Marisa Rueda Will, CHI-Spanish and Giovanna (Gio) Lester, CT

Live broadcast date: April 26, 2023

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, IMIA .015 CEUs

Brief description: This webinar discusses training interpreters in public speaking skills.

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#56 Investigating VRI: Applications and Implications for Interpreter Trainers, Students, and Practitioners

Speakers: Esther de Boe, PhD and Jessica P. B. Hansen, PhD

Live broadcast date: February 10, 2023

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, IMIA .015 CEUs

Brief description: This webinar presents research related to video remote interpreting and implications of that research for interpreter training.

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#55 Don’t Wing It! A Dynamic Discussion on Interpreter Professional Development in the Workplace

Panelists: Rebecca Buchan, MA, CI, CT, IIC, Valerie Huang, MA, CHI™ -Mandarin, Analía C. Lang, BA, CHI-Spanish, Erin Rosales, BA, CPTD, CHI-Spanish, and Moderator: Elena Langdon, M.A., CT, CoreCHI-Portuguese 

Live broadcast date: October 19, 2022

CEU approvals: NONE

Brief description: This moderated panel discusses on-the-job and employer-based learning initiatives.

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#54 Cool Tech Tools for Your Online Classroom

Speakers: Bridget Yaden, PhD and Laurence Ibrahim Aibo, PhD, CoreCHI

Live broadcast date: July 22, 2022

CEU approvals: NONE

Brief description: This webinar discusses strategies and tools that promote effective learning in remote classrooms.

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#53 Teaching with Intention: Stimulate and Track Student Learning with Cognitive Reflection Activities in Interpreting Education

Speaker: Betsy Winston, PhD

Live broadcast date: May 18, 2022

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, IMIA .015 CEUs

Brief description: This webinar presents activities intended to develop critical thinking and communication skills in interpreting students.

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#52 Why Cognition Matters in Public Service Interpreting – Understanding Working Memory and Expertise

Speaker: Elisabet Tiselius, PhD

Live broadcast date: March 16, 2022

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, IMIA .015 CEUs

Brief description: This webinar explores cognitive aspects of public service interpreting, covering both theoretical and practical aspects.

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#51 Virtually Present: Preparing Healthcare Interpreters to Thrive in Remote Modalities

Speaker: Elizabeth Guinle-Salter, MA T&I, CMI

Live broadcast date: February 3, 2022

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, IMIA .015 CEUs

Brief description: This webinar focuses on training interpreters in the use of remote modalities, including aspects related to workspace and navigating communication barriers.

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#50 Role-Space Theory and the Training of Interpreters

Speaker: Robert G. Lee, MA, CI/CT

Live broadcast date: November 16, 2021

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, IMIA .015 CEUs

Brief description:  This webinar introduces viewers to Role-Space, developed by Peter Llewellyn-Jones and Robert G. Lee, and how it can be used with interpreting students.

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#49 Context Matters: Defining, Teaching, and Assessing Context in Healthcare Interpreting

Speaker: Robyn K. Dean, CI/CT, PhD

Live broadcast date: September 29, 2021

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours

Brief description: Context is fundamentally important in interpreting. This presentation explains how educators can help to not only define context but teach it and assess practitioners’ ability to understand and apply it in professional practice.

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#48 Interpreting Is a Practice Profession! Improving Professional Performance with Demand-Control Schema

Speaker: Debbie Lesser, MS, CI/CT, QMHI, CoreCHI

Live broadcast date: August 25, 2021

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, IMIA .015 CEUs, 1 ATA CEP

Brief description: This presentation introduces the idea of understanding interpreting as a practice profession, and presents Demand-Control Schema as an approach to decision-making in interpreting practice.

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#47 Frontlines to Classroom: Advanced practice strategies for interaction management and sociolinguistic negotiation

Speaker: Andrea Henry, CHITM

Live broadcast date: July 28, 2021

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, IMIA .015 CEUs

Brief description: This webinar presents strategies and tools that interpreters can employ as part of their professional practice and makes recommendations for trainers. 

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#46 Raising the Bar for Healthcare Interpreting

Speaker: Johanna Parker, MA, CHITM, FCCI

Live broadcast date: April 21, 2021

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, IMIA .015 CEUs

Brief description: This webinar discusses aspects of the past, present, and future of the professional of healthcare interpreting, and includes suggestions for trainers.

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#45 Missing the Plot: Preparing Trainee Interpreter for the Use of Informal Idiomatic Language in the Health Setting

Speaker: Ineke H. M. Crezee, PhD, ONZM, MA (Tr), MA, BA, RN, NAATI Cert Tr, Cert Health Int 

Live broadcast date: February 17, 2021

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, IMIA .015 CEUs

Brief description: This webinar presents research into communication patterns in healthcare interactions, with a specific focus on informal idiomatic language and discusses implications for interpreter training.

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#44 DeMystifying Rape and Sexual Encounters for Medical Interpreters

Speaker: Patricia Alonzo, M.Ed, CHI, CMI

Live broadcast date: October 16, 2020

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours

Brief description: This webinar focuses on interpreting in situations of rape or sexual assault and on training interpreters for this type of situation. 

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#43 Doing Empathy in Multilingual Healthcare Communication through Interpreters

Speaker: Dr. Demi Krystallidou

Live broadcast date: August 28, 2020

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours

Brief description: This webinar presents research into empathy in multilingual healthcare communication and discusses the relevance of this research for interpreter training. 

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#42 Adapt, Amend, Adjust: A Panel Discussion on How Interpreter Trainers Adapted their Programs in Response to COVID-19 Restrictions

Panelists: Carmelina Cadena, Jaime Fatás-Cabeza MA, USCCI, CHI, Jennifer M. Flamboe, M.A., CHI™, Michon Shaw, M.S., NIC Advanced, Tamas Farkas, B.A. and Moderator: Rachel Herring, Ph.D.

Live broadcast date: July 22, 2020

CEU approvals: NONE

Brief description: This panel discussion focuses on trainers’ experiences in adapting to remote teaching and learning at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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#41 Interpreting IEP Meetings: A Close Look for Interpreter Trainers at this Intersection of Healthcare and Education Services

Speakers: Nora Goodfriend-Koven, MPH and Gabriela Siebach, MATI, CHI

Live broadcast date: June 18, 2020

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours

Brief description: This webinar discusses IEP meetings, which may involve medical, legal, educational, and other types of content, and provides information and guidance for interpreter trainers. 

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#40 How Not to Hurt Part 2: Teaching Trainers about Vicarious Trauma and Advanced Self-Care Tools for Interpreters

Speaker: Ludmila Golovine

Live broadcast date: April 30, 2020

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours

Brief description: This is Part 2 of the series on vicarious trauma and self-care in interpreting; however, this portion may be viewed independently of the other. This portion focuses on tools and resources.

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#39 Interpreting for Fragile Patients in Mental Health Encounters: Training Tips for Healthcare Interpreters

Speaker: Dr. Laura Brookham

Live broadcast date: March 11, 2020

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, IMIA .015 CEUs, ATA 1 CEP

Brief description: This panel discussion focuses on interpreting in mental health, particularly in the context of immigration and criminal cases. 

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#38 Working with Detained Immigrants in Removal Proceedings: Training Tips for Healthcare Interpreters

Speakers: Laura Belous, Esq. and Jaime Fatás-Cabeza MA, USCCI, CHI

Live broadcast date: December 4, 2019

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, ATA 2 CEPs

Brief description: This webinar introduces trainers to the complex world of removal proceedings, which involve aspects of both legal and healthcare interpreting, as well as challenging ethical situations. 

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#37 Just Read This to the Patient. An Introduction to Teaching Sight Translation to Healthcare Interpreters

Speaker: Rachel Herring, M.A., Ph.D.

Live broadcast date: September 25, 2019

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 Performance-based hours, IMIA .015 CEUs, ATA 1 CEP

Brief description: This webinar focuses on teaching sight translation, including skill acquisition, decision-making/ethics, and practical tips for educators.

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#36 Not only English! Building the Foundation for Language-specific & Bilingual Interpreter Instruction

Speakers: Natalya Mytareva, M.A., CoreCHITM and Margarita Bekker, CoreCHITM

Live broadcast date: July 17, 2019

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, ATA 2 CEPs

Brief description: This webinar focuses on language-specific training for interpreters, including recommendations for design and materials. 

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#35 I'm exhausted! Research on complicated encounters and mental fatigue

Speakers: Andrea Henry, BA, CMI-Spanish and Kathy Murphy, MSC, RN, PCNS-BC, PPCNP-BC

Live broadcast date: May 16, 2019

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, ATA 1 CEP

Brief description: This webinar reports on the development of a validated tool for the assessment of interpreters’ mental fatigue and discusses the relevance of the results for interpreter training. 

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#34 How Not To Hurt: Teaching Trainers about Vicarious Trauma and Interpreter Self-Care / Ludmila Golovine

Speaker: Ludmila Golovine

Live broadcast date: March 28, 2019

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, ATA 1 CEP

Brief description: This webinar discusses vicarious trauma and self-care and presents recommendations for interpreter training. 

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#33 A Lot to Think About: Investigating Dialogue Interpreting Performance

Speakers: Rachel Herring, M.A., Ph.D., and special guest Cynthia E. Roat, MHP

Live broadcast date: December 27, 2018

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 Performance-based hours, ATA 1 CEP

Brief description: This webinar discusses a research study focused on monitoring and control in dialogue interpreting performance. The presenter and a special guest also discuss how research informs training. 

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#32 Putting Consecutive in Order: Reassessing Priorities and Skills in the Teaching of Consecutive Interpreting

Speaker: Jaime Fatás-Cabeza

Live broadcast date: October 20, 2018

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 Performance-based hours, ATA 1 CEP

Brief description: Consecutive interpreting training often emphasizes the development of technical skills; however, such an approach may not sufficiently address other relevant considerations.

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#31 All of the Above: Preparing Interpreters for Computer-based Exams

Speaker: Liz Essary, MCI, CHITM

Live broadcast date: September 23, 2018

CEU approvals: NONE

Brief description: This webinar discusses approaches to preparing students to take computer-based exams (in particular, interpreting certification exams). 

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#30 Professionalism and Beyond: Training Interpreters to Succeed in Business

Speakers: Rosanna Balistreri, Giovanna Lester, CT, and Elena Langdon, MA, CT, CoreCHITM

Live broadcast date: July  14, 2018

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.25 hours, ATA 1 CEP

Brief description: This panel discussion focuses on the professionalism aspect of the NCIHC standards and on developing and maintaining a business as an interpreter, whether staff or freelance. 

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#29 Bridging the LLD Gap: Relay Interpreting and Lack of Equivalencies

Speaker: Victor Sosa, CCI, CMI

Live broadcast date: May 10, 2018

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.25 hours, ATA 1 CEP

Brief description: This webinar discusses the training of interpreters who work with languages of limited diffusion, with a particular focus on issues of equivalence and on relay interpreting. 

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#28 Modality Matters: Including Remote Interpreting in Interpreter Training Programs

Speaker: Suzanne Couture, MEd, CHITM

Live broadcast date: February 15, 2018

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.25 hours, ATA 1 CEP

Brief description: This webinar discusses training interpreters to work remotely, via phone/video. It discusses trends, research findings, and training needs. 

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#27 Target Your Training: Techniques to adapt your content to meet your student's needs

Speaker: Eliana Lobo, MA, CoreCHITM

Live broadcast date: December 14, 2017

CEU approvals: NONE

Brief description: This webinar introduces tools and strategies for adapting classroom activities to meet the needs of learners with varying levels of skill and prior knowledge. 

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#26 There's an App for That: Training Tools for Interpreters

Speaker: Cris Silva, M.A., CT

Live broadcast date: November 9, 2017

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, ATA 1 CEP

Brief description: This webinar introduces tech tools that can be useful to interpreters and interpreter trainers.

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#25 Décalage is not a dirty word: Teaching simultaneous mode to healthcare interpreters

Speaker: Elena Langdon, MA, CT, CoreCHITM

Live broadcast date: August 11, 2017

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.25 Performance-based hours, IMIA .015 CEUs, ATA 1 CEP

Brief description: This webinar discusses simultaneous interpreting in healthcare interpreting and offers practical suggestions for training interpreters in simul, including relevant technology for classroom/practice use. 

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#24 To Cry or to Scream? Managing Impartiality in Emotional Situations

Speaker: Michelle Marie Pinzl, MA

Live broadcast date: April 20, 2017

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.25 hours, ATA 1 CEP

Brief description: This webinar discusses the emotional aspects of interpreting practice and presents approaches and practical exercises related to emotional regulation that may be used in the classroom. 

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#23 Open to Interpretation: Knowing What You Don't Know About Implicit Bias

Speaker: Kalen Beck, CI and CT

Live broadcast date: February 23, 2017

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.25 hours, ATA 1 CEP

Brief description: This webinar discusses implicit bias, its impact on interpreting in healthcare, and approaches to addressing this topic in interpreter training. 

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#22 Training for Impartiality: How Interpreters Can Work Effectively with Gender & Sexual Minorities

Speakers: Tim Moriarty, MPA, CMI-Spanish, CHI, and Jorge U. Ungo

Live broadcast date: December 15, 2016

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, IMIA .015 CEUs, ATA 1 CEP

Brief description: This webinar provides trainers with a framework for incorporating LGBTQIA issues into interpreting training.

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#21 A Closer Look for Trainers: Lessons of the National Job Task Analysis Study of the Healthcare Interpreter Profession

Speakers: Eliana Lobo, M.A., CoreCHI and Natalya Mytareva, M.A., CoreCHI

Live broadcast date: October 28, 2016

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, ATA 1 CEP

Brief description: This webinar discusses the job task analysis carried out as part of CCHI’s certification development, with a specific focus on aspects that are relevant to interpreter trainers.

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#20 Translation: A multi-functional tool in the interpreter's toolbox

Speaker: Katherine Langan, PhD

Live broadcast date: August 26, 2016

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.25 Performance-based hours, ATA 2 CEPs

Brief description: This webinar discusses the place and function of translation as part of interpreter training, including specific recommendations and practical applications.

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#19 Training Heritage Speakers: A Journey Worth Taking

Speakers: Natasha Curtis, MA, CHITM and Glenn Martinez, PhD

Live broadcast date: June 16, 2016

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.25 hours, ATA 2 CEPs

Brief description: This webinar focuses on interpreting students who are heritage speakers of a language, including information about heritage speakers and recommendations of classroom activities. 

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#18 Please Do, Please Don't: Partnering with the Provider for Successful Encounters

Speaker: Nancy Foote, MD

Live broadcast date: April 7, 2016

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.25 hours, ATA 1 CEP

Brief description:  This webinar prepares trainers to teach student interpreters how to work effectively with providers, as members of the care team. 

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#17 Baby Steps to Note-Taking

Speaker: Rosanna Balistreri

Live broadcast date: February 18, 2016

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.25 Performance-based hours, ATA 1 CEP

Brief description: This webinar introduces concepts and activities related to training student interpreters in note-taking skills. 

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#16 Live Q&A with 10 Past ToTs

Speaker: A roundup of 10 past presenters

Live broadcast date: December 3, 2015

CEU approvals: NONE

Brief description: Unique opportunity to revisit several topics we covered over the past two years. We lined up 10 of our previous presenters to answer your questions and respond to your comments about the topics they presented.

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#15 Remote but Highly Engaged: Training Telephonic and Video Interpreters for Success

Speaker: Claudia Brauer 

Live broadcast date: October 29, 2015

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.0 hours, ATA 2 CEPs

Brief description: This webinar presents information and recommendations related to training interpreters for remote (phone/video) work. 

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#14 Say That Again? Enhancing Your Accent Acumen

Speaker: Amber Desiree Franklin, PhD, CCC-SLP

Live broadcast date: August 13, 2015

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, 1.5 ATA CEPs

Brief description: This webinar presents information about accents, listening, and interpreter training. 

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#13 Gloss Up Glossaries! Expanding the Application of Glossaries in Interpreter Training Programs

Speaker: Natalya Mytareva, M.A., CoreCHITM

Live broadcast date: June 25, 2015

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.25 hours, ATA 1.5 CEPs

Brief description: This webinar discusses ways to effectively use glossaries and glossary-building in interpreter training. 

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#12 Thanks for Making that Mistake! Using Errors as an Interpreter Teaching Tool

Speaker: Juan Felipe Gutiérrez Sanín, M.D., MPH

Live broadcast date: April 19, 2015

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.25 hours

Brief description: This webinar discusses ways in which analysis of mistakes can be integrated into classroom activities and used as a dynamic learning tool to increase students’ analytical and critical thinking skills. 

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#10 No Interpreter Left Behind: Ensuring Langauge Access for Less Common and Indigenous Langauge Communities

Speaker: Katharine Allen, M.A.

Live broadcast date: December 11, 2014

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.25 hours

Brief description: This session introduces interpreter trainers to strategies for adapting assessments and content to the needs of speakers of less common/indigenous languages. 

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#09 Offering Feedback Effectively: A Critical Skill for Trainers of Interpreters

Speaker: Jacolyn Harmer, MA, DEA, AIIC

Live broadcast date: September 4, 2014

CEU approvals: CCHI 1 hour

Brief description: This webinar will prepare instructors to use feedback as a teaching technique that fosters learning and performance. 

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#08 Straight into the Deep End? A Systematic Approach to Skill Acquisition and Goal-Setting in Interpreter Training

Speaker: Rachel Herring, M.A.

Live broadcast date: July 24, 2014

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.25 hours

Brief description: This webinar discusses a systematic and structured approach to designing learning activities in order to facilitate skill acquisition. Participants are asked to apply the material introduced in the webinar.

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#07 Spreading Safety, Not Germs: How to Teach Infection Control to Medical Interpreters

Speaker: Michelle Scott, RN, MA 

Live broadcast date: May 15, 2014

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, ATA 1.5 CEPs

Brief description: It is critical for medical interpreters to understand how to prevent the spread of infection in order to keep patients, themselves and their families safe. 

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#06 Help! What do I do now? Improving Decision-Making Skills for Interpreters Using Demand-Control Schema

Speaker: Karen Malcolm, MS

Live broadcast date: March 27, 2014

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.25 hours

Brief description: Demand-Control Schema is an effective framework for interpreters to use when making decisions about their work. This webinar introduces D-CS and how it can be used to train interpreters in a wide variety of settings. 

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#05 Cultural Incompetence: A Fix-It Webinar for Interpreter Trainers

Speaker: Marjory Bancroft, M.A. 

Live broadcast date: January 30, 2014

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.25 hours

Brief description: This webinar presents a pedagogical framework and practical strategies that interpreter trainers can use to teach interpreters how to perform cultural medication, rather than act as cultural arbiters themselves. 

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#04 Technical Tools for Teaching Medical Interpreters: From YouTube to iPhones as Classroom Aids

Speaker: Alvaro Vergara-Mery, PhD, CMI

Live broadcast date: October 31, 2013

CEU approvals: NONE

Brief description: Engage your medical interpreter students with multi-media material that emulates real health care experience. Use the power of feedback from self-recorded speech analysis to greatly enhance performance.

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#03 From the Classroom to the Exam Room: Learning Based on Real-World Experience

Speaker: Therese-Marie Mirande, PhD, MA

Live broadcast date: August 8, 2013

CEU approvals: NONE

Brief description: This presentation looks at ways to provide content for students in a real-world context. This is often challenging because of issues surrounding HIPAA, liability, and logistics. This recorded webinar considers how to successfully find and use guest speakers, field trips, collaboration with healthcare training programs, and a practicum or internship.

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#02 Tips for Teaching Advanced Medical Topics and Finding Resources for LLDs

Speaker: Mary Esther Diaz, M.Ed., CT 

Live broadcast date: May 16, 2013

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.25 hours

Brief description: This webinar focuses on training materials and approaches related to complex medical topics and terminology, with a specific emphasis on languages of lesser diffusion. 

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#01 Teaching Ethical Decision-Making to Healthcare Interpreters

Speaker: Cynthia E. Roat, MPH

Live broadcast date: March 22, 2013

CEU approvals: CCHI 1.5 hours, ATA 1.5 CEPs

Brief description: Future healthcare interpreters need to gain an understanding of interpreter ethics and practice applying them. This webinar introduces trainers to three relevant frameworks for classroom use. 

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