Professional Standards & Expectations

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Personal Accountability for Communication Success – Qualifications

Interpreting Process

  • Deaf Interpreters who participated in focus groups held in 2007 were asked to describe their internal process of interpreting. They describe the following elements of the process:
  • Analysis of source language message/discourse
  • Mental representation of meaning
  • Construction and production of equivalent message in a form intelligible to the consumer
  • Management of information flow
  • Monitoring of comprehension

Roles and Responsibilities

Ethics and Professional Code of Conduct

Desire for a Professional Community