Dear interpreters' educators:
CHIA invites you to submit an oral presentation proposal for its 19th Annual Educational Conference, “CHIA: Forging The Way To A Gold Standard In Health Equity,” in the following categories:
- Workshop. These are interactive skill-building presentations that are 2 hours long taking place Friday morning. Limited space to 4 workshops
- Breakout Session. These presentations are 60 minutes long, taking place Friday afternoon and all day Saturday.
Proposals for workshops & presentations can be in any of the following areas:
- Language Access, and LEP patients’ rights
- Medical terminology and healthcare concepts
- Interpreting in specific medical specialties
- Culturally and linguistically appropriate health care services
- Skills needed for, and challenges on interpreting in medical/legal settings (worker’s comp)
- Interpreting skills in consecutive, sight translation, and simultaneous models
- Work benefits or challenges for contract interpreters, freelance, staff interpreters, translators and bilingual employees
- Applications of technology that improve access to care, interpreter training and on-the-job tools for working interpreters
- Healthcare interpreting for ASL interpreters
Here is the link to the Call for Presentations
Please feel free to contact us at conference@chiaonline.org with any questions you may have.