Resources

Business Practices

• Business Practices page on the ATA website
• The Savvy Newcomer: ATA’s Blog for Newbies to Translation and Interpreting
• Worksheet for interpreting services based on ASTM Standard Practices for Language Interpretation
• How to be an interpreter and not go broke
• Calculator Sheet (.xlsx file)
• Education-related tax deductions available for freelancers (freelanceunion.org)

Conference interpreting resources

• International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC) Professional resources
• Interpretation – European Commission
• What is conference interpreting? (European Commission)
• interpreting.info
• Interpreters (United Nations Language Careers)
• InterpretBank – Software for interpreters
• Boothmate – Companion app for the booth
• Online Resource for Conference Interpreter Training (European Commission)
• AIIC Guidelines for Distance Interpreting  
• Golden Ears, Golden Tongues: How interpreters should take care of the tools of their trade (AIIC)

Court interpreting resources

• Federal Court Interpreters (US Courts)
• Federal Court Interpreter Certification Program Examination (US Courts)
• State Interpreter Certification (National Center for State Courts)
• Resources for Professional Development of Court Interpreters (New Jersey Courts)
• Court Interpreters Program (California Courts)
• The Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
• Useful resources and links (NAJIT)
• Team Interpreting in the Courtroom – NAJIT Position Paper (March 2007)
• Guidelines for communicating rights to non-native speakers of English in Australia, England and Wales, and the USA
• Interpreting Resources – Compensation schedule; Skill-building Workshops; Training and Practice Tools; Reference Materials and Dictionaries  (The Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania)
• The Interpreter’s Gym – Sound tracks for court interpreters to practice simultaneous and English consecutive, by court interpreter Stephen Sanford.
• Legal Spanish dictionary by the Real Academia Española – free online
• New Code of Conduct for Washington State Judiciary Interpreters (ID Blog Post)  
• Interpreting depositions: a fact sheet (AIIC)
• Language Access Index (National Center for Access to Justice)
• General Guidelines and Requirements for Transcription Translation in a Legal Setting for Users and Practitioners – NAJIT Position Paper (2019) NEW

Medical/healthcare interpreting resources

• ATA Medical Division – Resources
• The National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care (the National CLAS Standards)
• Office of Minority Health (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
• International Medical Interpreters Association (IMIA) – Resources
• Medical Interpreting Certification in the United States: a comparison
• CCHI Certification Resources
• ARTICLE Serving the Diverse Population of the United States with CLAS is the Best Way to Achieve Health Equity
• LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC Swahili English Medical Glossary

Consecutive Interpreting

• Hana Lourenzo, “Note Taking for Consecutive Interpreting,” The ATA Chronicle (October 2008).

Training

• European Commission – Training modules for interpreting students
• European Commission – Interpretation training toolbox

Interpreters associations

AIIC, FIT, IMIA, NCIHC, NAJIT, CCIA, ACIA… A list of all the relevant interpreters and translators associations, both national and international.