Interpreting Industry Conferences

Who: OSTI (Oregon Society of Translators and Interpreters)

How to register: http://ostiweb.org/2018-conference/

How many CE hours accredited by CCHI: CCHI accredits the following sessions; keep in mind that some sessions are concurrent (performance-based CEs are indicated as PB):

1) Keynote by Daniel Tamayo (1 CE hr)
2) Heidi Schmalz – Drop that Dictionary! (1.25 CE hr)
3) Daniel Tamayo – Written Translation (1.25 PB CE hr)
4) Allison deFreese – The Untranslatable (1.25 CE hr)
5) Christina Healy – Exploring complexities of ethics in action (1.25 CE hr)
6) Felicity Ratway – Interpreting and Advocacy (1.25 CE hr)
7) Daniel Tamayo – Sight translation & Simultaneous interpretation (In Spanish) (1.25 PB CE hr)
8) L. Suarez – Weaving Latinx and Trauma-Informed Mental Health Treatment (1.25 CE hr)

9) Workshop on 9/9/18: Judit Marin – Chemical Dependency (3 CE hrs total, incl. 1.5 PB CE hrs)

Who: TAPIT

How to register: click here

How many CE hours accredited by CCHI: The following sessions are accredited by CCHI for continuing education hours for healthcare interpreters (performance-based CE hrs are marked as PB CE); for the 2-day conference maximum 9 CE hrs can be earned:

1) Professional Empowerment in an Ever-Changing World (1 CE hr)
2) OoRah Excellence! (A life changing journey) (1 CE hr)
3) High-Acuity Interpreting: The Relationship between Interpreter Fatigue and Encounter Complexity (1 CE hr)
4) Self Care: Meeting the Challenge (1 CE hr)
5) Strategies for Matching Ethical Principles with Real-Life Ethical Dilemmas(1 CE hr)
6) Updates in Bloodless Medicine: Jehovah’s Witnesses the Medical and Ethical Challenge (1 CE hr)
7) A Path To Enhanced Professionalism: Empowerment Through Teamwork And Collaboration Opportunities (1 CE hr)
8) Making Sense of Bugs and Drugs (1 CE hr)
9) Interpreting for Gender and Sexual Minorities (1 CE hr)
10) Interpreting Bodies: The Language of Physical Descriptions (1 CE hr)
11) Hearing impairment and dual-language learning: the role of the interpreter (1 CE hr)
12) “Been there, done that! Learn and remember.” Memory Development Workshop (1 PB CE hr)
13) How Technology is Changing the Landscape of Professional Interpreting (1 CE hr)
14) End of Life Interpreting: The Cost of Caring  (1 CE hr)
15) Top 10 Reasons Why I (Don’t) Need an Interpreter: Exposing the Myths (1 CE hr)
16) Cultural and Linguistic Emergencies: From describing the quality of pain to “Fijese que tengo atacado los bronquios” (1 CE hr)

Who: MUSC Health Medical Interpreter Training Center

How to register: click here

Who: TAHIT (Texas Association of Healthcare Interpreters & Translators)

How to register: http://www.tahit.us/symposium

How many CE hours accredited by CCHI: CCHI accredits the following sessions; keep in mind that some sessions are concurrent:

1. Bedside Shift Hand off Report with Interpreters
2. Tips and Tools to Enhance Your Performance as a Remote Interpreter
3. Now you see me, now you don’t.  HRI the next frontier.
4. Language Access Plans and Section 1557 of the ACA
5. The Technologies of Video Interpretation
6. Beyond Language, Words, and Meaning
7. BEI Medical Interpreter Certification
8. Interpreter Certification Update: National Task Force on EtoE Performance Exam for LLD Interpreters
9. Implications of Team Interpreting in the Healthcare Environment
10. Spoken Language Interpretation Tools for Geriatric Patients with Hearing Loss
11. Advocacy: Qualified Interpreters for People who are Deaf
12. ER Triage to Discharge: OMG They Can’t Hear!
13. Vicarious Trauma, Self-Care, and Demand-Control Schema: What do they have in common?
14. Vicarious Trauma and Professional Interpreters
15. Best Practice: Working with Deaf Individuals in Medical Settings
16. A Proposed Protocol for Volunteer Interpreters during Disaster Relief Efforts
17. The Art of Advocacy for Interpreters in Health Care
18. Brain Power and Emotional Fitness for Interpreters and Translators
19. Expresiones y términos contrastantes en la traducción inglés-español (Contrasting Expressions and Terms in English-Spanish Translation)
20. Tips for Medical Interpreters to Best Navigate Low Health Literacy
21. A Study in Ethics
22. Is it a good idea to have a stationed interpreter?
23. Translate It Well and They Will Come: Responsibilities of the healthcare translator in ensuring patient comprehension
24. Certified Community Health Workers (CHW) as Interpreters…An Evolving Trend for Health Care Systems
25. Selling Language Access to the Executive Suite
26. Court Is Back in Session: Advanced Ethical Decision-making for Healthcare Interpreters Part II
27. Strategic Partnership between Academia and Industry: Evaluation Based on Best Industry Standards and Best Practice
28. Let’s talk about your resume!

Who: Carolinas Society for Healthcare
Consumer Advocacy

How to register: email CSHCA1982@yahoo.com

How many CE hours accredited by CCHI: 11.25 CE hours

Who: Arizona Translators & Interpreters, Inc. (ATI)

How to register: https://atiinc.org/event/2018-ati-annual-conference/

How many CE hours accredited by CCHI: The following sessions are accredited as continuing education (CE); a total of 6 CE hrs can be earned for the conference (some sessions are concurrent):

1) Rise to the Challenge: Keys for Performing Legal Interpreting in Community Settings (2 CE hrs)
2) Clinical Neuropsychology Encounters (1 CE hr)
3) The Process of Translating (1 CE hr)
4) Lunch Keynote: Are we there yet? En Route to Professionalization. (1 CE hr)
5) Brain Power and Emotional fitness for Healthcare Interpreters (1.5 CE hr)
6) Strategic Planning for Translating Lengthy and Complex Texts (1.5 CE hr)
7) Cultural Considerations in Palliative Care (1 CE hr)
8) El Sistema Cardiovascular/The cardiovasacular system (Eng/Spa) (1 CE hr)
9) Lifting You Up: A self-care session (1 CE hr)
10) Microagressions: More Than Just Another Interpreting Session (1 CE hr)

Who: Midwest Association of Translators and Interpreters

How to register: https://www.matiata.org/event-3014904

How many CE hours accredited by CCHI: The following 3 sessions and keynote are accredited (each session is 1.25 CE hour unless specified otherwise):

1) Developments in Language Access (1 CE hr)
2) Today’s Interpreter and OPI, VRI and On-site!
3) Protocol and Decision Making for Sign Language and Spoken Language Interpreters
4) From the Booth: Omitting to Preserve the Meaning.

Who: MUSC Health Medical Interpreter Training Center

How to register: click here

Who: Washington State Coalition for Language Access

How to register: https://www.wascla.org/

How many CE hours accredited by CCHI:

The following 4 sessions are presented for continuing education accreditation; 4.5 CE hrs can be earned totally:

1) A Unified Approach: Coordination of Language Access Services Across State Agencies (1.25 CE hr)
2) State Government Language Access Updates (1.25 CE hr)
3) Health Equity and Language Access (1.5 CE hr)
4) Policy into Practice (0.5 CE hr)

Who: ATA (American Translators Association)

How to register: http://www.atanet.org/conf/2018/

How many CE hours accredited by CCHI: The following 65 sessions are accredited.

All sessions 1 hour unless noted otherwise (for pre-conference sessions); performance-based sessions are noted as PB. Keep in mind that sessions are concurrent:

1) AST-14: How to Handle System-Inherent English>German Translation Problems Efficiently (3 PB hrs)
2) AST-13: Practical Technologies for Interpreters (3 CE hrs)
3) AST-12: Interpreting Assignments: Preparation 2.0 (3 CE hrs)
4) AST-11: NMT and Me: Securing Your Future as a Language Professional in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Neural Machine Translation (3 CE hrs)
5) AST-8: Delving Below the Surface: Translating the Subliminal Meaning Between the Lines (3 PB hrs)
6) AST-5: Mode-Switching: Taking Your Interpreting Skill Set to the Next Level (3 PB hrs)
7) AST-2: Skill-Building for the Seasoned Interpreter (3 PB hrs)

8) 003: Responding to Disaster: Best Practices and Lessons Learned from the 2017 North Bay Fires
9) 027: It Takes a Village of Medical Interpreters to Care for a Child, Part I
10) 042: It Takes a Village of Medical Interpreters to Care for a Child, Part II
11) 025: Translation at Medical Interpreting Appointments
12) 040: Introduction to Medical Translation
13) 130: The Mindful Interpreter: An Introduction to Self-Care
14) 128: Introduction to Simultaneous Interpreting in the Health Care Setting (1 PB hr)
15) 156: Interpreting in Medical Research: A Pediatric Oncology Breakthrough
16) 151: Note-Taking Skills for Korean-Language Medical Interpreters (1 PB hr)
17) 176: Interpreting in Mental Health Settings
18) 119: Translating Spanish Cardiology Reports: TEE or TTE? PET or SPECT?
19) 057: Note-Taking for Dialog Consecutive Interpreting in Diverse Settings (1 PB hr)
20) 072: Ethics in the Real World
21) 070: Navajo Medical Interpreter Training from 1964: The Need for Interpreters Has Always Been Here
22) 085: Legal Issues and Reporting Requirements for Staff Health Care Interpreters
23) 083: Genetically Enhanced Cancer Therapies
24) 100: Caring for the Other: Diversity and Disparity
25) 050: Korean>English Translations of Pharmaceutical Clinical Studies: The Fundamentals
26) 066: Don’t Ask What Your Profession Can Do for You, but What You Can Do for Your Profession. Advocacy Matters!
27) 158: Self-Assessment: An Introspective Overview of Cognitive Interpreting Skills
28) 141: Sexual Harassment: Terms You Need to Know
29) 179: QUEERterpreting and TRANSlation: LGBTQ and Language Pitfalls and Solutions
30) 174: Speakers of Latin American Indigenous Languages: What Every Spanish Interpreter Should Know
31) 142: Two Roads Diverge: Medical Interpreting versus Legal Interpreting
32) 133: Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics, Part I
33) 147: Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics, Part II
34) 135: A Call to Professional Associations to Defend Future Human Language Practitioners
35) 140: Preserving Tone: Translating Cultural Context in Eastern and South East Asian Languages
36) 144: Influence of Voice Gender on Simultaneous Interpreting Quality Assessment: Does Sex Affect Perception?
37) 026: Gourmet Translation in Portuguese: Adding Some Flavor and Depth
38) 010: Linguistic Tools for Translators
39) 001: Gender-Neutral Language Makes the Front Page
40) 030: A Guide to Achieving Faithful but Idiomatic Translations
41) 013: Making Sense of im Sinne von and Other German Phrases Translators Love to Hate (1 CE hr)
42) 018: Future Tense: How Artificial Intelligence and Neural Machine Translation Are Shaping Our Industry
43) 035: In Dutch with Dutch: Battling Language Interference
44) 126: Translating the “Fit and Flair” of Romance Languages into English
45) 123/095: Toward More Gender-Sensitive Translations in Arabic
46) 122: Promoting and Preserving Linguistic Diversity Online, Part I
47) 136: Promoting and Preserving Linguistic Diversity Online, Part II
48) 157: How to Deal with Portuguese-Language Varieties: A Translator’s View, Part I
49) 171: How to Deal with Portuguese-Language Varieties: A Translator’s View, Part II
50) 163: Examining Cross-Cultural Communication Styles
51) 116: Interpreting English Figures of Speech: The Importance of Finding Themes or Main Ideas
52) 110: Son of Verbing: Your Way to a Better Translation
53) 052: How to Get Tense: Translating Verbs Into and Out of Slavic Languages
54) 065: Strategies for Avoiding Language Interference and Coping with Opinionated Clients
55) 063: Language Technology Wiki: A Place to Shape Translation and Interpreting Technology
56) 090: You Can Find a Needle in a Haystack, but Can You Find a Thimble? A Primer on Regular Expressions, Part I
57) 105: You Can Find a Needle in a Haystack, but Can You Find a Thimble? A Primer on Regular Expressions, Part II
58) 087: Human Trafficking: Culturally Sensitive and Trauma-Informed Interpreting, Part I
59) 102: Human Trafficking: Culturally Sensitive and Trauma-Informed Interpreting, Part II
60) 082: Interpreting Theories and Practice Between Japanese and English, Part I
61) 097: Interpreting Theories and Practice Between Japanese and English, Part II
62) 080: The 100 Most Difficult Words to Translate into Portuguese, Chapter 3
63) 103: Better Online Searches: It’s All in Your Head
64) 101: Boning Up on Phrasal Verbs
65) 096: Locutions That Do Not Denote or Intimate What One May Cogitate

Who: MING & Children’s Hospital of Atlanta

How to register: click here

How many CE hours accredited by CCHI: TBD