Our Professional Interpreters and Translators make our Language Services Division shine!
Feedback on the performance of our trained and qualified Interpreters/Translators is very important to us as an organization. In fact, since 90% of our Interpreters/Translators are former students who have completed the University of Georgia courses and/or workshops offered by SeSo, Inc. feedback is also a reflection of our work as mentors and trainers.
When teachers and school administrators take the time to personally reach out to us and send comments like the ones below, we remember why we put our hearts into what we do. Thank you to our amazing team of professionals for continuing to support multicultural families and schools with quality and accurate communication. Your words, your professionalism, your ethics, make a difference!
“My interpreter was wonderful! We had a very smooth conference and everything was interpreted correctly."
"I felt very comfortable with my interpreter and would gladly have her again for any interpreter needs!”
“(Interpreter) was very thorough and awesome!”
“The interpreter was on time; I actually apologized for the school lateness. Interpreter was professional and I would like to work with her again.”
“(Interpreter) was excellent. One of the best interpreters I have worked with.”
“(Interpreter) was great and went beyond all expectations.”
“(Interpreter) made this process very easy. I would love to work with her again.”
“I stopped the meeting to let your interpreter introduce herself. That made a huge difference as she is part of this team”
“The interpreter was very knowledgeable and made everyone feel at ease.”
Our multilingual professionals can support you in the following languages: Arabic, Burmese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Ewe, Farsi, French, Gujarati, Haitian-Creole, Hindi, Japanese, Karen, Korean, Laotian, Marshallese, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Thai, Urdu, and Vietnamese. Click here to visit our Language Services Division
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University of Georgia Courses for K-12 Interpreters are Filling Up!
October is always an exciting time of the year for us! Not one, but two of our courses start in October and we already have a waiting list! Thank you to the school districts that have prioritized training of bilingual personnel, and are making it possible for their staff to have the professional development tools needed to support schools and emergent bilingual families.
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The Heart of the Vietnamese Community
We LOVE this story about the Vietnamese Elder Association South Atlanta and how this Vietnamese enclave in Georgia, with about 8,700 residents, is now the heart of the community. Read More.
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Multicultural Family Engagement:
Meet Students and Families Where They are
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The concept of "meeting families where they are" when it comes to family engagement, changed drastically with the pandemic. This excellent 30-minute video provides information about how to empower multilingual families despite the digital divide. Check it out: Family Engagement and Digital Equity
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In NAETISL’s News
Collaborating with School Psychologists
NAETISL is getting ready for its third Learning Through Practice Session, Collaborating with School Psychologists. Our distinguished guest speaker, Dr. Anarella Cellitti, an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Arkansas is volunteering her time to share strategies for an effective collaboration between teachers and spoken language interpreters. Read More
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Have you seen the Access & Inclusion Newsletter? Lots of information about the impact of spoken language interpreters and translators in education.
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NAETISL will be adding new resources to their YouTube Channel Be sure to subscribe!
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The Ph.D. Corner
Over 100 pages of qualitative research completed about the impact of spoken language interpreters and translators on multilingual family engagement! This journey has allowed me to interview teachers, interpreters, translators, school administrators, superintendents, and multicultural families to absorb information, to learn, and to understand how to move the profession forward. The support for standardized training and a national certification process is evident and I have no doubt that we are establishing a strong framework to get it done. Our multicultural families, interpreters, translators and schools deserve nothing less.
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Cultural Humility: Collaborating with English Learner Families and Promoting Welcoming Schools
Our virtual sessions are designed to give Educators, Parent Instructional Coordinators, Parent Liaisons, School Counselors and School Administrators, an overview of evidence-based tools to collaborate effectively with English Learner families and foster family engagement. Through highly-interactive small group activities, we discover creative ways to strengthen cultural and linguistic bridges with multicultural school communities.
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Ana Soler, BSW, MPH - Ph.D. in Special Education Student
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