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How an LSP Can Strategize Your Language Access Plan
A language access plan is a document that describes how an organization plans to provide services to individuals who are non-English speaking or have limited English proficiency (LEP). A language access plan helps to facilitate and articulate an organizations’ needs,...
The Importance of Services that are Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.”- Martin Luther King Jr. One of the social determinants of health is healthcare access and quality, which includes having access to healthcare, health insurance, and health...
Why You Shouldn’t Use Google Translate for your Multilingual Website
Machine translation (MT) is just that—a machine (software) that translates content. For the most basic machine translation service, such as Google Translate, a human isn’t involved in the translation. Machine translation is good for some types of content such as...
Healthcare Organizations: Increase Member Engagement During Open Enrollment by Providing Language Support
By Avantpage Open Enrollment for healthcare will soon be upon us, starting November 1, 2021, for 2022. Healthcare organizations have a big opportunity during this time to increase their membership in the Limited English...
2020 Census Insights on Language Use in the U.S.
By Avantpage Our founding fathers wrote in the Constitution of the United States, Article 1, Section 2 that the U.S. must have a decennial census to count every person in the country and provide that information to the U.S. The census data is used to determine the...
Best Practices for Planning Multilingual Events and Interpreting
Whether you’re hosting a large multilingual online event or a smaller in-person meeting, you’ll want to give your audience the best possible experience. Providing professional human interpreters to interpret live while the speaker presents can break down the language...