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Professional Development Speaker Series 2023 Launches January 19
The Interpreter’s Lab is honored to have Dr. Debra Russell as the first presenter for this year’s Professional Development Speaker Series. With over 30 years of experience in the interpreting field working as an ASL interpreter, interpreter educator, and consultant, our esteemed colleague, Dr. Russel, will be leading an important session on The Role of Questioning in Legal Settings.
Multilingualism on the Pitch
Have you ever wondered what language all those players and referees are speaking to each other on the pitch? How do they all communicate without interpreters in the mix? FIFA is host to 32 different countries speaking up to 20 different languages…
Giving Tuesday
Giving Tuesday is a generosity movement with core values rooted in selflessness. It seeks to support and give to the community around us, and globally with the help of the Giving Tuesday Organization. The first Giving Tuesday took place in 2012, as a response to the...
Ethics in Practice: A Special Pan-Canadian Panel Dialogue
“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.” Isaac Asimov I love that quote by writer and professor Isaac Asimov - “Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.” In the real world of interpreting – in fact in the real...
Welcome to A New Season at The Interpreter’s Lab
While technically we are still enjoying the summer, there is something about September that just feels like a transition to a new season. Maybe it’s the back to school and back to routine that signals the change. Whatever it may be, we at The Interpreter’s Lab are...
Connecting, Sharing, Learning, and Growing Just Got Better at The Lab!
Professional Development Updates and More Things are already heating up for 2023 and we still have some wonderful sessions coming up in 2022! Make sure to join us for the following workshops. Remember that as Members of The Interpreter's Lab you are automatically...
The Secret Key: How Working as an Interpreter Unlocks Access to Different Worlds
In a previous blog post, on Why being an interpreter is a good career move for foreign trained health care professionals, I wrote that interpreting in healthcare settings is a smart professional career move for health care professionals who were trained outside of...
Spring into Knowledge and Grow your Practice
Curiosity is a valuable trait in interpreters, and one that is commonly associated with those interpreters that excel at their work. Curiosity leads to the pursuit of answers, answers lead to gains in knowledge, and knowledge, in turn, becomes the ingredient that...
Get Social Media Working For You
Join us on April 21 and May 19 and get your social media working for you! Two back-to-back guest speakers that will get you started on the right path. I must admit it, I am not the most consistent person when it comes to social media. In fact, days could go by when it...
Our Humanity is our Strength: Navigating Emotionally Charged Settings
Image: Inside Edition News: https://www.insideedition.com/emotions-are-high-as-interpreter-breaks-down-translating-zelenskyys-speech-ukraine-activist-73545 Mauro Couto Interpreting demands a high level of accuracy and well-developed time management skills. To perform...
The Road to Equity is Paved by Trained Interpreters
I recently came across an article I had written, together with a colleague, for Cultures West Magazine – an AMSSA* (Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of B.C.) newsletter in 2006. The article, titled Accessible Health Care: A Response...
The Interpreter’s Lab Report – Fall 2020
In Gratitude... a special offer just for you. Calling all past students - take the Interpreting in Community Settings course, get refreshed, get your continuing education units done, and pay only $197 (that's a $300 savings!)* Register NOW Coupon code randr2020 (note...
An Interview with Kiran Malli, the Director of The Provincial Language Service* of the PHSA of British Columbia
* The PLS is a program of the Provincial Health Services Authority of British Columbia. Find out more about Kiran Malli at the end of this blog post. Hello Kiran and thank you for taking the time to answer a few questions. Hello Angela, not a problem at all. In...
Bottlenecked and Backlogged: Eventually the Demand for Interpreters’ Services will Explode
I may be wrong, but the way I see it is that you can only delay and deflect for so long. At some point it will all come bubbling up. Since the COVID-19 pandemic really hit home here in Canada, interpreters have seen unprecedented numbers of cancelled, postponed or...
A Simultaneous Shift: Expand your skills. Boost your career. Get ahead of the demand
"Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.” – Wayne Gretsky Simultaneous Interpreting workshop and professional development for interpreters that work primarily in consecutive mode. The line between consecutive and simultaneous modes of...
Online Courses and Workshops – Stay ahead of the curve
There’s an old adage that goes "to be ahead of the curve" which means "to be one of the first to change to a new idea or way of doing something that later becomes generally popular."[1] These days we are using a different type of curve analogy: "flattening the curve"...
Keep Interpreters Working and Working Safe
Without interpreters working and working safely, essential communication is jeopardized. And that affects us all. Interpreters foster community cohesion, community safety and community health, and are an integral part of our system. Accurate communication is vital...
Be The Calm In The Storm
As an organization that serves many different clients, it of course came to mind to write a piece relevant for the current crisis that we are all facing as a global community. But then I thought to myself that all of the do’s and don’ts must have already been...
The Serendipitous, Eco-friendly Rewards of e-Learning
Some ideas just shine brighter. In 2016 we at The Interpreter’s Lab (and parent company Shifting Pictures Inc.) made the decision to move our courses online. I had never really been a fan of self-directed, online courses for interpreter education and training. At the...
Kudos to our Founder & Director – Angela Sasso
Handbook of Research on Medical Interpreting Founder and Director of Shifting Pictures and The Interpreter's Lab, Angela Sasso, has been recently published in the Handbook of Research on Medical Interpreting - a textbook for interpreting students. Angela's chapter,...