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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Home For Trainers Webinar Catalog
#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.
#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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