California Vetoes Medical Interpreters Bill
Multiple studies have reported the serious consequences that result from language barriers and poor communication between physicians and the patients they treat. In California, where more than 40% of the population speaks a language other than English, the role of medical interpreters cannot be ignored ...
Health Benefits of Language: The Rosetto Effect
The Rosetto Effect The Roseto Study (which resulted in the Rosetto effect), one of the first to demonstrate a direct link between health and language, was conducted on a group of Italian immigrants living in a small town in Pennsylvania originally from the same town in Italy. This group was ...
MA Trial Court Multilingual Forms
LC Translates for MA Trial Court The Massachusetts Trial Court has to deal with a very diverse population including many linguistic minorities[1]. With the aim to enhance communication among these minorities and ensure that Limited English Proficient (LEP) individuals have access to important information, the MA Trial Court recently embarked ...
Language Connections’ Corporate Language Training Programs
LC Offers Corporate Language Training Program Our business language training program is divided into specialized areas according to individual needs. These include: Corporate Foreign Language Training in several languages (including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, Hebrew, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese), Corporate ESL Training, and ESL ...
Russian Delegation Visits Boston
Russian Delegation Attends Harvard Faculty Club Event This month twenty Russian delegates including the Deputy Mayor and Chief of Staff to the Moscow Mayor and Moscow Government, Anastasia Rakova, will be visiting Boston. They will attend a seminar on city management organized by Bridgeway Group, a non-profit consulting firm based ...
LC Provides Chinese and Russian Interpreters at AVEVA World Summit 2013
AVEVA World Summit 2013 This month we are partnering with a marketing and event planning agency based in London, Alchemy, responsible for organizing the AVEVA World Summit 2013. The conference will take place from October 30th through November 1st in Boston, MA. AVEVA is a British software engineering company which ...
LC Provides Medical Interpreting at Virginia Military Hospital
LC PROVIDES MEDICAL INTERPRETING AT MILITARY HOSPITAL Fort Belvoir Community Hospital is a world-class medical facility which serves the nation's wounded, active-duty service members, retired military and family members.The military hospital is designed to provide both inpatient and outpatient care for the military in the nation's capital region. LC has ...
Language Connections’ Community Interpreting Training
LC Certificate Community Interpreting Training Program Language Connections is pleased to inform you that we are offering a Community Interpreting Training Program. The first session starts this fall, from November 9, 2013 to December 21, 2013. Our 7-week, 45-hour program was developed to enable participants to become competent community interpreters that are ...
Taiwan Invests in Biotech
Taiwan's Investment Environment. Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou recently announced government plans to increase investment in the nation's biotech industry by more than 25% over the next three years, positioning Taiwan as a global leader in the bio pharmaceutical industry. This, along with a number of other key factors, has led to ...
Singapore’s Biotech Industry
Biotech Investment. Singapore's economy has grown by 7.9% in just the last year, with large government incentives aimed at boosting the country's biotech industry. Last year, the government announced that it would increase its R&D budget to $8 billion over the next five years. Considered one of the world's top innovative ...