Legal Performance Test Preparation  Training Test

Due to the complexity of language used in the legal setting, with the degree of sophistication and consistency in usage with both English and ASL they are both assessed during the test.

DESCRIPTION:

This Legal Interpreter Certification, Performance Test Preparation Training Course will familiarize you with a various possible legal interpreting topic question.

This training is an accelerated practice that is focused on the “quantitative” and qualitative values of the Legal Performance test. Specifically attending to the topics as recommended by the testing entities for sign language interpreters.

If you have taken the legal test in the past, you can review your test results and analyze where your strengths are and areas that need to be strengthened.

Educational Objectives:

·        Participant will review and memorize for practice the Miranda Act warning in ASL.  

·        Participant will review and practice interpreting for the perspective juror the Voir Dire process.

·        Participant will practice note taking and interpreting consecutively.

·        Participant will practice interpreting for a witness on the witness stand in a bank robbery case questioned by the prosecutor.

·        Participant will practice interpreting  simultaneously in ASL the jury instructions as presented by the Judge.

·        Participant will practice interpreting an arraignment with names, dates, and case numbers in a courtroom.

Participant will be assessed by the instructor interpreting all of the topics covered in this training course.