Tennessee Association of Professional
Interpreters and Translators (TAPIT): Tennessee’s
Language Bridge
TAPIT is a professional organization for interpreters and translators of written, spoken and signed languages in Tennessee. Among TAPIT's members are linguistic experts in many professional fields, including judicial, medical and technical.
Professional interpreters and translators provide essential services for hospitals, commerce, the judiciary, and many other settings in both the public and private sectors, and TAPIT’s members enable Tennessee's businesses and governmental agencies to communicate with their international peers not only across our state, but all over the World.
Scholarships
Scholarship Donations are mainly to help defray the cost to needy students and members who wish to attend our training and/or seminars in the form of scholarships. Many members donate to this cause in order to give financial assistance to up-and-coming interpreter-translators, especially students and refugees.
By Ardis L. Nelson
East Tennessee State University (ETSU) and
TAPIT are finalizing an agreement that will benefit TAPIT
members who live outside Tennessee. Starting fall
semester 2011, out-of-state TAPIT members will be eligible to
take online and onsite classes for the Graduate Certificate in
Health Care Translation and Interpreting (TIC) at East
Tennessee State University (ETSU) at in-state rates. This is a
convenient, cost-effective way to earn graduate credits and
prepare for one or both of the national certification exams.
The graduate certificate program began as a 12-credit-hour
on-campus program at ETSU during fall semester 2010 and is
gradually expanding to include online classes. This fall, LANG
5200 – Medical Terminology (3 credits) will be offered
completely online; during spring 2012, LANG 5300 – Health
Care Translation (3 credits) will be completely online. The
other two courses will be 24% online, with six to seven
on-campus classes and practicum requirements. They are: LANG
5100-Fundamentals of Translation and Interpreting, offered in
the fall, and LANG 5400-Healthcare Interpreting, offered in the
spring. However, they are expected to be available 100% online
by the 2012-2013 academic year. Those who want to take the
program completely online will be able to do so by taking one
course per semester and finishing by spring 2013.The LANG 5200
online course has been created by TAPIT member Raluca
Negrisanu, Ph.D., and will be team-taught with Ardis Nelson,
Ph.D., a licensed trainer of Medical Terminology with Cross
Cultural Communications. For more information e-mail:
nelsona@etsu.edu or check out our webpage:
http://www.etsu.edu/cas/lcrc/programs/certiicate.aspx.
Ardis Nelson, Spanish<>English interpreter, has been on the TAPIT Board since 2007 and serves as TAPIT secretary.
ETSU students attend the Annual TAPIT Conference in Nashville TN
The LCRC provides scholarships for ETSU students in the Graduate Certificate Program in Healthcare Translation and Interpreting to attend the Annual TAPIT Conference in Nashville.
The 9 th Annual TAPIT Conference, September 9-12, 2011 was attended by four ETSU students, along with Dr. Nelson.
(
from left to right)
Norma Webb | Christina Romero | Dr. Ardis L. Nelson | Julia
Rusiñol |
Martha Marshall
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Norma Webb and Christina Romero
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(
from left to right)
Norma Webb | Christina Romero | Dr. Ardis L. Nelson |
Dr. Marvyn Bacigolupe Tipps,
TAPIT President Emeritus
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The 8 th Annual TAPIT Conference in September 2010 was attended by five ETSU students and three professors from the Department of Literature and Language. Dr. Raluca Negrisanu, Dr. Jerome Mwinyelle, and Dr. Ardis Nelson presented on various aspects of health care translation and interpreting.
(
from left to right)
Raquel Fratta | Dr. Ardis Nelson | Kayla Bobbitt | Diana Ochoa
| Linda Paternina | Melanie Marquez | Dr. Jerome Mwinyelle
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(
from left to right)
Linda Paternina | Diana Ochoa (first to complete the Graduate
Certificate in Health Care Translation and Interpreting, 2011)
| Melanie Marquez
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