Sign language interpreting and Transcription services












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            * Interpreting Services
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            Interpreting services are most often provided to students during classes and consultations
            when dealing with study-related matters (e.g., at the study department), when communicatin

            University staff, and in all other study-related situations.

            Interpreting between English and International Sign System is provided only to a limited e

            on current staffing capacity).

            Interpreting between languages other than English, Czech, International Sign System, and C

            Language is not provided.





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            * Who to contact
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            After agreement with the student and in cooperation with the teachers, the faculty contact

            interpreting services for individual students.

            The contact person [ URL "https://centrumcarolina.cuni.cz/CAENG-202.html"] negotiates the 

            of cooperation with the interpreter and subsequently monitors the fulfillment of the contr

            For specific interpreting dates, interpreters arrange directly with students.


            Students may also use the services of more than one interpreter during lectures.








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            * Transcription Services
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            By transcription services we mean real-time transcription (simultaneous transcription).

            This is a verbatim transcription of spoken language in real time, provided by professional
            trained transcribers who type the speaker’s words on an electronic keyboard connected to a
            The real-time transcription can be displayed:


            • on a regular PC or laptop monitor (if intended for one person),
            • on a larger screen (for a small group),

            • projected onto a big screen (for larger groups),
            • or via a polygraph system (regardless of the size of the audience).


            Real-time transcription in English is provided only to a limited extent (depending on curr
            capacity).
            Transcription in languages other than Czech and English is not provided.






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            * Who to contact

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            After agreement with students and in cooperation with teachers, the faculty contact person
            transcription services for individual students.

            Transcribers are provided by the Paluba Centre [ URL "https://centrumpaluba.ff.cuni.cz/stu
            krizovapomoc-sluzby/"] (Faculty of Arts, CU), the Czech Union of the Deaf [ URL "https://w
            we-are/"] , or other organizations.