SPI is the professional society for working interpreters. Full Membership carries 24 hours of CCHI and NBCMI CEUs a year, 24 hours of practice a year, practice sessions and events through the year, and the Commons. Your hours log themselves as you earn them.
24 hours of CCHI and NBCMI CEUs, 24 hours of practice, practice sessions and events through the year, and the Commons.
Apply to join The academy · TrainingNew to interpreting, or adding a specialty? The AALB academy teaches live classes with bookable Skills Lab sessions, a simulated clinic exam room, and proctored exams.
Start at the academy Hospitals and clinics · InterpretersVerified medical interpreters for your patients. Tell us the language and the setting, and a person at the Society's office matches you by hand.
For organizationsInterpreting is unregulated. SPI puts a standard in front of it. The Society is where working interpreters keep learning: CCHI and NBCMI continuing education, practice hours, sessions and events through the year, and the Commons.
A full year of continuing education comes with Full Membership, and your hours log themselves as you earn them.
Self-paced, in the practice lab, whenever you like, and every hour lands on your record.
Sessions run through the year, so keeping sharp is a habit rather than something you have to arrange.
Gatherings through the year for the people who do this work, and your hours log themselves.
A members' community for the craft: the questions, the hard calls, and the people who have been there.
Everything above: CCHI and NBCMI CEUs, practice hours, sessions and events, and the Commons.
Apply for Full Membership For interpreters in trainingRecorded continuing education while you finish your training, then you move up to Full Membership.
Apply as an Apprentice For organizationsYour organization covers membership for 10 or more of its interpreters. Each one is verified on their own and keeps their own record and hours.
Set up your seatsDues are billed only once you are accepted.
At 2 a.m., a verified interpreter is not a line item.
When a Dari speaker arrives in your emergency department, language access becomes the difference between informed consent and confusion. SPI exists so the person in that room is trained, verified, and still getting better, and paid fairly for it.
Society of Professional Interpreters · A program of Americans Against Language Barriers