| Trends
2009 |
Carola
E. Green and Wanda Romberger. Leveraging
Technology to Meet the Need for Interpreters.
State courts, faced with
the steadily increasing necessity to provide
interpreting services, are identifying
innovative uses of technology to maximize
existing interpreter resources, while remaining
fiscally responsible.
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| Trends
2008 |
Wanda
Romberger. Language
Access Centers: A Win-Win Idea.
The creation of a central recruiting, training,
testing, and scheduling center for providing
foreign-language interpreters is not just a
theory anymore. Alaska has created its
Language Interpreter Center under the auspices
of the Alaska Immigration Justice Project,
anidea that can be replicated by other courts.
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| Trends
2007 |
Wanda
Romberger. Interpreters
in Civil Cases. This article
discusses the adoption of an interpreter program
in state courts. The article looks at the
details and provisions of this program and how
it helps courts function more smoothly and how
it helps non-natives to better understand court
proceedings.
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| Trends
2006 |
Wanda
Romberger and William E. Hewitt. Wanted:
Career Paths for Court
Interpreters. This article explains that a
number of states are testing and certifying
court interpreters. Therefore, the courts
must begin to consider improved
service-utilization techniques for existing
interpreter resources and provide incentives to
entice new interpreters into the field.
Top
Ten Trends. Cultural
Diversity: The Use of Court Interpreters. This
article
discusses the need for qualified court
interpreters in the courts cystem as a method to
make the courts more effective in representing
non-English speakers.
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| Trends
2005 |
Wanda
Romberger and Madelynn Herman. Court
Interpreter Ethics Programs: Where We Are and Where We
Should Be Going? This article addresses the
needs for court interpreter ethics programs,
strategies for implementing such programs as
well as information on existing court
interpreter ethics programs.
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| Trends
2004 |
Virginia
Suveiu. The
Growing Need for Qualified Court Interpreters.
November 15, 2004. This article from the 2004 Trends Report
examines the growing need for qualified court
interpreters, with an emphasis on what
"qualified" interpretation means and
what getting qualified interpreters may cost
state courts.
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| Trends
2002 |
Wanda
Romberger and Madelynn Herman. Computer-Based Interpreter Testing.
This article explains the computer-based
interpreter testing in Texas. It explains
how it works as well as benefits of the testing
model and plans for future changes.
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| Trends
2000 |
Madelynn
Herman and Dorothy Bryant. Language Interpreting in the Court.
July 2000. This article explains how
"simultaneous telephonic interpreting"
works, discusses Minnesota's approach to court
interpretation, and presents the relative costs
incurred by incorporating interpreter technology
into the courts.
Tom Munsterman.
Multi-Lingual
Juries. July 2000. This
article discusses the increase in multilingual
juries. It focuses on New Mexico's state
constitution and how it addresses the need for a
standard language among jurists.
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