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BUSINESS INTERPRETING
Business Benefits
In addition to interpreting services, SCIS can provide enhanced services to your business such as:
- Localization of web site and marketing content into video of American Sign Language (ASL) to focus on Deaf customers
- Translation of training videos into permanent ASL versions for your employees
- Training modules for our on-site interpreters to prepare them for the unique environment of your facility including topics such as safety rules and specialized vocabulary
- Training services for your employees on working with Deaf employees
- Accurate and timely reporting of services used
- Collect regular feedback from your employees ensuring that the interpreters we send are ones who meet their specific communication needs
Contact SCIS today to figure out how best to meet your communication needs.
Interpreting for Business
Providing an interpreter through Sorenson Community Interpreting Services is good business. You can be assured that our employees have been adequately trained, are covered by appropriate worker’s comprehensive and liability insurance, and have been thoroughly vetted.
Making sure your employees and customers can effectively communicate is not just good business, it’s also the law.
1. Title I of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA), passed in 1990, requires businesses that have 15 or more employees to provide ‘effective communication’ to Deaf and hard-of-hearing employees. The use of a qualified interpreter may meet this standard depending on the communication needs of the individual.
2. Title III of the ADA requires that businesses open to the public provide access to Deaf and hard-of-hearing
customers
regardless of the size of the business. This may include providing ‘effective communication’ through sign language interpreting.
3. Section 504 of the Rehabilitative Act of 1973
bars discrimination against individuals with disabilities by any program that receives federal financial assistance. This covers customers who are accessing services as well as employees.