Healthcare Interpreting
Healthcare interpreting is a broad category that encompasses mental health and medical interpreting. Mental health interpreting can include counseling/therapy, psychiatric evaluations, and psychiatric hospital stays, while medical interpreting can involve anything from dental to ER.
Mental Health Interpreting
Underneath the mental health umbrella is language deprivation. I will include some resources here about language deprivation, as a plethora of research suggests language deprivation directly impacts cognitive and academic development and, therefore, users' mental health.
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Black, P., & Glickman, N. (2006, Summer). Demographics, psychiatric diagnoses, and other characteristics of North American deaf and hard-of-hearing inpatients. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 11(3), 303-321. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42658826
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Black, P., & Glickman, N. (2006). Language deprivation in the deaf inpatient population. JADARA, 39(1), 1-28.
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Cheng, Q., Roth, A., Halgren, E., & Mayberry, R. I. (2019). Effects of early language deprivation on brain connectivity: Language pathways in Deaf native and late first-language learners of American Sign Language. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13, Article 320. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00320
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Crump, C. J., & Hamerdinger, S. H. (2017). Understanding etiology of hearing loss as a contributor to language dysfluency and its impact on assessment and treatment of people who are deaf in mental health settings. Community Mental Health Journal, 53, 922-928. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-017-0120-0
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Hall, M. L., Eigsti, I. M., Bortfeld, H., & Lillo-Martin, D. (2017). Auditory deprivation does not impair executive function, but language deprivation might: Evidence from a parent-report measure in deaf native signing children. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 22(1), 9-21. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enw054
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Hall, M. L., Hall, W. C., & Caselli, N. K. (2019). Deaf children need language, not (just) speech. First Language, 39(4), 367-395. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142723719834102
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Hall, W. C. (2017). What you don't know can hurt you: The risk of language deprivation by impairing sign language development in deaf children. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 21, 964-965. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-017-2287-y
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Ryan, C., & Johnson, P. (2019). Review: Understanding language deprivation and its role in deaf mental health [Review of the book Language deprivaton and deaf mental health by N. Glickman, & W. C. Hall, Eds.]. American Annals of the Deaf, 164(4), 519-524. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/26898365
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Skotara, N., Salden, U., Kugow, M., Hanel-Faulhaber, B., & Roder, B. (2012). The influence of language deprivation in early childhood on L2 processing: An ERP comparison of deaf native signers and deaf signers with a delayed language acquisition. BMC Neuroscience, 13(44). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-13-44
RID Standard Practice Paper- Interpreting in Mental Health Settings
Medical Interpreting
As stated above, medical interpreting involves a lot of areas. It can include deaf patients or deaf healthcare professionals in settings ranging from specializations such as dental/orthodontic, optometry, and ophthalmology, podiatry, OBGYN/women's health, or can include typical healthcare such as routine checkups, surgery, hospital, and Emergency Room or ICU care, or include infant/child wellness.
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Cantrell, T. S., & Owens, T. (2007). Empowering deaf consumers through the use of deaf and hearing interpreter teams. JADARA, 40(3), 35-41.
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Nicodemus, B. S., Whynot, L., & Kushalnagar, P. (2020). Insights from U.S. deaf patients: Interpreters’ presence and receptive skills matter in patient-centered communication care. Journal of Interpretation, 28(2), 1-22.
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Pochhacker, F., & Schlesinger, M. (2005). Introduction: Discourse-based research on healthcare interpreting. Interpreting, 7(2), 157-165.
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Schapira, L., Vargas, E., Hidalgo, R., Brier, M., Sanchez, L., Hobrecker, H., Lynch, T., Chabner, B. (2008). Lost in translation: Integrating medical interpreters into the multidisciplinary team. The Oncologist, 13, 586-592. https://doi.org/10.1634/theoncologist.2008-0042