This course reviews ear anatomy, the process of hearing, types of hearing loss, tests and treatments, and offers simple tips to make your job easier when working with patients who have hearing loss This content is suitable for interpreters of all languages. Course DOES NOT address sign language interpreting or any services for the Deaf.
The course was developed by and for English↔︎Spanish interpreters, and requires converting vocabulary terms between those two languages. Additionally, the interpreting practice scenarios present an English-speaking provider with a Spanish-speaking patient. Interpreters of other languages can do 80% of the interpreting practice activity, by interpreting only the talkative provider into your target language.
CEAP/CCHI: All interpreters earn 1.5 accredited hours (Program ID: 10135); Spanish interpreters only can count 0.5 hours of this time as Performance Based credit.
IMIA/NBCMI: Approved for 1.5 hours/0.15 CEU (ID 23-1160).
$25 enrollment fee.