New article! Published in International Journal of Interpreter Education

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New article! Published in International Journal of Interpreter Education

My article ‘Making It Work: Applying AIIC Professional Standards to Conference Signed Language Interpreters’ was just published in the International Journal of Interpreter Education. The article discusses the need to educate and raise awareness among conference signed language interpreters and their clients regarding the rights to demand, respectively, good working conditions and linguistic access, specifically in high-level settings.

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CIT conference presentation on "Educating sign language interpreters for multilingual conferences"

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CIT conference presentation on "Educating sign language interpreters for multilingual conferences"

The Conference of Interpreter Trainers (CIT) held their conference in Salt Lake City from 31 October till 3 November 2018. It was a wonderful opportunity to give my plenary presentation on “A European panorama: Educating sign language interpreters for multilingual conferences“ and to meet educators, researchers and interpreters from across the USA and abroad.

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Interview in the International Journal of Interpreter Education

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Interview in the International Journal of Interpreter Education

The 9th edition of the International Journal of Interpreter Education (IJIE) was just published in December 2017. The IJIE is an open access journal and is available to anyone interested. You can read and download for free a wide range of articles. For example, about the training of interpreters in Spain's asylum and refugee office and on evidence-based practice conducted in Norway with second-year interpreting students as they prepare to interpret for deafblind clients for the first time. 

For this edition Ester de Boe, PhD student at the University of Leuven, held an interview with me. Would you like to know my advice to interpreter educators and interpreting students? Read the interview here.

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