Sign Language Interpreting Facts NASA LaRC provides interpreting services for Center-wide meetings, staff meetings, employee appraisals, team meetings, lectures, and other activities through Contracted Interpreter Service. Coordinating interpreting services for the Center, contracting with freelance interpreters when necessary. Interpreting is the process of taking a message rendered in one language, processing this message for content, then rendering the message into another language. In sign language interpreting, this process often happens simultaneously, with some allowance for the interpreter to understand the phrases being spoken. Sometimes the interpreter lags two or more sentences behind the speaker.
Interpreters usually work only one to two hours by themselves.
For assignments which run longer than this, they work in teams. One interpreter will work for 20-30 minutes, while the other interpreter rests their hands. Interpreters follow a strict code of ethics as established by their professional organization, The Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf . Aids Hearing Aids assist people with a hearing loss, allowing them better sound discrimination. Some people who have a hearing loss find these devices helpful, some do not, and some choose not to wear them for cultural reasons, preferring instead to rely on their eyes to received communication information.