Category: Websites

The university website offers several proficiency exercises (grouped by difficulty level) in which native speakers have recorded vignettes that interpreters can listen to with the goal of improving their comprehension. http://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/

Another website that offers users the opportunity to familiarize themselves with differences in dialect and accent across the U.S. http://alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml

This website allows visitors to listen to a variety of English dialects and accents in the United States. http://web.ku.edu/~idea/northamerica/usa/usa.htm

This website contains brief ASL videos covering a range of medical topics. Site visitors can browse through an alphabetical listing of medical terms or use the site’s search engine to look for medical terms of interest and their accompanying videos. http://www.deafmd.org/

This page is in English, but a simple click of the “Español” tab at the top provides readers access to articles written by Spanish-speaking doctors in their countries on a wide variety of medical topics. www.medlineplus.com