Other large jurisdictions making the move include San Diego County, which is translating materials into Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese, and Cook County in Illinois, which is translating into Hindi.
She had worked at Stuyvesant High School in Lower Manhattan until Friday, translating materials from English into Korean for immigrants whose children attend school there.
"Nature and Narrative" combines the Indian tradition of storytelling with that of nature-derived imagery; "The Human Condition" covers those who depict or suggest the human body; and "Material Evidence" stresses the technology of translating materials into forms that engage the mind and the eye.
'In the early days, it seemed quite challenging actually, translating materials and training people and all of that.
With very few tools validated on non-English speakers, centers have devoted considerable resources to translating materials.
Strategies for addressing these included recruiting multilingual staff, adapting and translating materials, redesigning educational handouts towards a pictorial focus, and using interpreters [ 50].
One participant, whose first language was not English, commented on the difficulty of translating materials such as leaflets and the loss of information and context that can occur.
Translating materials into Haitian Creole, which only became an official language in Haiti in 1987 and which remains a predominantly verbal language with several dialects, was difficult and required multiple quality assurance steps.
Although native English speaking professionals were consulted during translations, all translated material should be regarded as guiding rather than final.
