Colorado Language Connection

We had such a successful and fun training this Summer. Everybody bonded over experiences, stories that we shared with each other during the training. We want to thank these great participants who have joined Bridging The Gap Training at Colorado Language Connection. We thank them who have sought out this training, who have invested their time and energy; we want to celebrate their determination for improvement to strive to become professionally trained and qualified interpret

Colorado Language Connection, a division of Asian Pacific Development Center, is licensed by The Cross Cultural Health Care Program (CCHCP) to offer Bridging the Gap Medical Interpreter Training in Colorado. The growing number of culturally and linguistically diverse patients in the United States has made communication more challenging in health care settings. It is now common for health care institutions to recruit bilingual staff to serve as interpreters and translators, t

Lately, we have been receiving questions about Bridging the Gap in regards to the certificate of completion issued by the Cross Cultural Health Care Programs, and we would like to clear up some of the concerns about this training. After completing the BTG course and passing the test, students can call themselves a professionally-trained medical interpreter. However, in order to receive certification in medical interpreting or to be a certified medical interpreter, interpreter

Congratulations to all the interpreters who have successfully completed Bridging the Gap Medical Interpreter Program in November! Our students learned crucial interpretation techniques such as the roles of the medical interpreter, managing the flow of an interpreting session, memory development, code of ethics, culture brokering, and other topics essential for interpreters in the medical field. Want to know more about the Bridging the Gap training program? Visit our website a

For Bridging the Gap Medical Interpreter Training 2018 Schedule please go here: https://www.coloradolanguageconnection.org/bridging-the-gap Bridging the Gap, created by The Cross Cultural Health Care Program, is a 40-hour professional development course that trains bilingual individuals to work as medical interpreters in hospitals and clinics. The course introduces attendees to critical skills required for successful interpreting in the medical field. Topics covered in the t