Two Child Translators, Two Views on Measure
by Yvette Cabrera, Orange County Register
December 13, 2005
Last June, the California State Assembly passed AB775, authored by Speaker Pro Tem Leland Yee, to prohibit the use of children under 15 as interpreters in public hospitals, clinics and doctors' offices. Under the proposed bill, any violators would lose state funding and have their state contracts canceled. Medical industry translation expert and President of Global Language Solutions, Inna Kassatkina, provides source quotes and reference materials to Yvette Cabrera for her weekly OC Register column on the practice of using children as translators in a medical setting.
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