Course Summary:

In this two-day language-neutral course, participants will learn what they need to know in order to provide interpreting services for the courts in South Carolina.

This course will cover:

• Court Interpreting Fundamentals

• Intro to Court Interpreting Skills

• Ethics for Court Interpreters

• The Makeup of the Oral Certification Exam

• SC Court Interpreting Policies and Procedures

About the Instructor:

Javier Castillo is president of Castillo Language Services, Inc. in Greenville, N.C. He is a federal, state court-certified, and certified medical interpreter, translator, consultant, trainer, and internationally recognized speaker. Since 2007, Javier has offered training workshops for court, medical, conference, and community interpreters across the world. Javier is a contract interpreter for the U.S. Department of State and has been qualified (and has testified) as an expert witness in federal and state cases on interpretation and translation issues. He has developed and taught training courses for: staff and contract interpreters for the U.S. Department of State Office of Language Services, legal education courses for members of the judiciary, as well as courses on working with interpreters in the legal field at Campbell Law School and the UNC School of Law. Javier is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, he is the former President of the Carolina Association of Translators and Interpreters (CATI), former Chair of the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators (NAJIT), and head of the U.S. Chapter of the International Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters (IAPTI).