01:00 AM EST on Sunday, January 16, 2011 That block of college campus in Providence is filled with stories of long journeys, new beginnings and treasured second chances. The problem is, the students at the downtown campus of the University of Rhode Island seem far too intent on fitting an education into very full lives [...]
By Ron Sylvester The Wichita Eagle After a snafu with an interpreter in the Wichita case of a Rwandan man, a federal judge set out rules today for making sure it didn’t happen again. U.S. Senior District Judge Monti Belot said he will give lawyers on both sides until Jan. 7 to agree on an [...]
About 70,000 Washington residents who have limited English may lose access to interpreters during medical visits under a proposed budget cut. The spending cut proposed by Gov. Chris Gregoire would eliminate a state-financed program that subsidizes interpreter services to medical clinics and hospitals who serve Medicaid patients. By Manuel Valdes The Associated Press Related About [...]
By TAMAR LEWIN New York Times Published: December 8, 2010 While the number of college students studying Spanish, French and German increased only modestly from 2006 to 2009, enrollment in American Sign Language — the fourth most-popular language — surged more than 16 percent, according to a new report from the Modern Language Association. Sign-language [...]
By Frank Lee • fcleestcloudtimescom • November 13, 2010 Beginning next year, Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare will not pay for health care interpreters who are not listed on an approved Minnesota Department of Health roster. Under new state law, the department has had to set up a voluntary statewide roster of spoken language health care [...]
Patti Singer (psingerdemocratandchroniclecom) • Staff writer • October 21, 2010 Democrat and Chronicle Paw Kee Say, expecting her third child, went to her first medical appointment in a land where she knows virtually no adult besides her husband, and neither one of them speaks English. What the native of Burma, now called Myanmar, could say only [...]
This is one of the problems with the system that CLI is trying to combat with their services. By Shannon Proudfoot, Postmedia News October 5, 2010 At first, Annette McDonald couldn’t even make eye contact with her student. An English-as-a-second language (ESL) teacher in Dartmouth, N.S., McDonald spends her afternoons teaching one-on-one lessons in the [...]
By HEATHER WYSOCKI hwysockicapecodonlinecom September 29, 2010 12:00 AM MASHPEE — For nearly two decades, Mashpee Wampanoag tribe member Jessie “Little Doe” Baird has worked to bring back her tribe’s knowledge of their native Wopanaak language, last spoken by tribe members more than 150 years ago. Now, with the help of a prestigious John D. [...]
By Junaid Ahmed BBC News Angelo Macri has been an interpreter at the UN for more than 10 years. Cuba’s Fidel Castro spoke for more than four hours. Indian politician VK Krishna Menon was on the podium for more than eight hours. When delegates at the United Nations are faced with a runaway speaker – [...]
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