The Connecticut Mirror

Interpreter shortage challenges appropriate medical care for deaf patients

Doreen Simons, a certified deaf interpreter, uses a video remote interpreting (VRI) service from her Farmington home. Melanie Stengel Credit: Melanie Stengel / C_HIT.org Deaf residents report frequent ...
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian

Medical interpretation services at Cooley Dickinson Hospital: The role of language access in advancing health equity and accessibility

Among many factors that determine an individual’s access to healthcare, the language of medicine stresses a fundamental distinction between communication and transaction. To access healthcare is to ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Alumna facilitates crucial conversations as medical interpreter

Debbie Lesser is a catalyst, facilitating crucial conversations taking place in often highly sensitive situations. As a certified medical interpreter for one of the largest health systems in the ...
The Michigan Daily

Bridging the language gap: Inside Michigan Medicine’s interpreter services

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook James Cech, American Sign Language interpreter at Michigan Medicine, interviews with The Michigan ...
The Progress-Index

For sign-language interpreters, it's all about guaranteeing equal access for the hard-of-hearing: Newsmakers

PETERSBURG — Heather Kubitski's life changed because of an adoption that never happened. "My parents wanted to adopt a deaf child, so I wanted to learn to sign, and that was just ingrained in me since ...