Sight Translation for Healthcare Interpreters
Presenter: Rosanna Balistreri
5:45 - 9 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 18 , 2017
Alliance for African Assistance
5952 El Cajon Blvd
San Diego, CA 92115
For questions, contact Valentina Lunati at 619 286 9052 x 246 or valentina@alliance-for-africa.org.
Schedule:
5:30 sign-in. Light meal provided. Details to follow.
5:45 to 9 p.m. (session includes 15-minute break)
Continuing Education credits:
CCHI: 3 CE Hours
ATA: 3 CE Points (Pending)
Registration: Thru 9/13/17 After 9/13/17
CHIA-Member: $60.00 $80.00
Non-Member: $80.00 $100.00
Pre-registration online is required.
Parking: small parking lot in the back of the building, street parking when that is full.
This Sight Translation workshop focuses on the general skills of reading, textual analysis and vocabulary to practice verbal text conversion from the source language to the target language. The training will present different tiers of exercises that will allow participants to practice with speed reading, reading comprehension and meaning extraction from text, in order to facilitate the process of Sight Translation. The ultimate goal of the activities presented during this workshop aims at enabling participants to produce correct, coherent and fluent translations.
Rosanna Balistreri is a trilingual speaker of Spanish, Italian & English. She holds a B.A. in Linguistics with a Certificate of Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), and an M.A. in Spanish Linguistics. In 2010 & 2011, Rosanna served as President of the California Healthcare Interpreting Association; she has also served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI) and is presently Member of the National Council of Interpreters in Health Care (NCIHC) Standards and Training Committee and a co-chair of the Language of Lesser Diffusion (LLD) Workgroup.
Currently, Miss Balistreri teaches Translation and Interpreting at Cal State University Fullerton & she owns REACH-reaching diversity, a consulting agency for cultural & linguistic services in healthcare, where she provides a vast array of interpreter training and cultural awareness training, as well as performs healthcare interpreter skill and knowledge assessments for a variety of clients who employ and contract interpreters.
