by Mimi Moore | Feb 7, 2024 | Culture & Tradition, Interpreting Services, Specialized Translation
Download our CMS poster on Indigenous Languages All too often, conversations about language access focus on languages that are spoken most widely throughout the country — think languages like Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog or your local threshold languages. And while it’s...
by Mimi Moore | Mar 15, 2023 | Customer Experience, Specialized Translation, Translation Resources
Here’s how alternative format services allow providers to offer comprehensive access to healthcare. In order to provide the most comprehensive care possible, healthcare providers and organizations must be sure that all of their communications and services — from...
by Mimi Moore | Nov 2, 2022 | American Sign Language, Interpreting Services, Video remote interpreting
A sign language interpreter communicates between people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and those who have hearing. A sign language interpreter may be useful or required in many different settings, including healthcare, education, court, an office or other situations....
by Avantpage | May 4, 2022 | American Sign Language, Customer Experience, Interpreting Services, Language Industry, Technology, Video remote interpreting
Based on standard hearing exams, one in eight people in the US aged 12 years or older has hearing loss in both ears. This number equals 13 percent of the population or 30 million people. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires title II (state and local...
by Avantpage | Apr 20, 2022 | Elections Translation, Interpreting Services, Language Industry, Specialized Translation, Translation, Translation Resources
California Voter’s Choice Act (VCA) California lawmakers approved the Voter’s Choice Act (VCA) in 2016, known as Senate Bill 450. The VCA “modernizes elections in California by allowing counties to conduct elections under a model which provides greater...
by Avantpage | Mar 22, 2022 | Elections Translation, Specialized Translation, Translation, Translation Resources, Uncategorized
Providing language access to election materials helps to ensure more equitable elections in the U.S. If a person has a hard time understanding a ballot, that person will be less likely to vote. Unfortunately, this leaves a portion of the limited English proficiency...
