The Interpreting and Translation Services Department provides a range of multilingual services across Northeast Ohio. These include:
- Face-to-face interpreting
- Phone interpreting
- Virtual interpreting
- Document translation
- Proofreading and editing
- Cross-cultural training
- 40-hour medical interpreter training course
Our program’s network of bicultural interpreters has experience in consecutive interpreting.
Clients are treated in a professional and courteous manner. Because we understand that the needs of each client are unique, we are happy to match an interpreter or team with the skills, knowledge, and experience required by our clients.
Our interpreters are available for various settings and situations such as business meetings, site visits, medical appointments, health care assessments, depositions, court appearances, etc. Interpreting is also available via telephone or Zoom.
Interpreter Training Details
ASIA offers bi-lingual individuals exciting and challenging opportunities at different levels that are steeped into their unique cultures.
Our pool of professionally trained interpreters is screened for language proficiency. Interpreters who work in less common Asian languages, such as Karen, Burmese, and Nepali, are recruited directly from immigrant and refugee communities in the area.
Before being considered for the interpreter pool, candidates must complete interpreter training courses which teach interpreting skills and protocols that emphasize:
- Confidentiality and professionalism
- Interpreter roles and boundaries
- Ethics, values, and navigating cultural dilemmas
- Memory development and sight translation
- Interpreter code of ethics
Interpreter Training Details
All potential interpreters must:
- Pass a criminal background check
- For medical interpreters: test negative for tuberculosis (TB) and be current on their MMR and Hepatitis B vaccinations.
- Have a valid driver’s license
If you are interested in this opportunity, and would like to join our family, please submit an updated resume and any credentials to Ching Lo at clo@asiaohio.org.
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