About
What is ASLIA QLD ?
The Australian Sign Language Interpreters Association of Queensland (ASLIAQ) is a professional body that represents the needs and interests of Auslan (Australian Sign Language) Interpreters in Queensland.ASLIA Qld provides a forum on such issues as training, recruitment, working conditions and other provisions of services within the industry. ASLIA QLD strives to advocate and foster the continuing education of all who are working in the field.
Our Mission
The mission of ASLIA Qld is to promote awareness and recognition of the rights and responsibilities of practitioners.
What is interpreting?
Interpreting is a highly complex process requiring a high degree of linguistic, cognitive and technical skills to receive a message in one language and deliver it in another. An interpreter may deliver the interpreting in simultaneous or consecutive mode.
The profession of Auslan/English interpreting is a highly specialised field. Simply knowing both languages (Auslan and English) does not qualify a person as an interpreter. The interpreting task is complex. Interpreting demands enormous concentration and requires the ability to deconstruct and reconstruct the linguistic elements of two languages simultaneously, rapidly and accurately. Interpreters work as part of a multi-disciplinary, professional team. Some interpreters choose to specialise, obtaining specific competencies relating to a specialist area such as in the medical, legal, educational, employment or community sectors.
What do we do?
The Australian Sign Language Interpreters Association (Queensland) exists to:
- Promote recognition of the professional status of interpreters.
- Promote, foster and improve the art and professionalism of Auslan (Australian Sign Language) interpreters.
- Assist in the upgrading of interpreting skills and the development of fluency in Auslan.
- Maintain communication with consumers/users and employers of interpreting services.
- Protect the rights of interpreters.
- Ensure compliance and adherence with a code of ethics for interpreters.
- Support, advocate and protect the rights of interpreters (in areas of health, personal safety and working conditions).
- Liaise and/or co-operate with, or lobby any relevant government orother organisation, group or individual in the pursuance of theassociations objectives and purposes.
- Consult and/or collaborate with organisations associated with Deafpeople to promote closer liaison between these bodies and to provide themeans whereby ideas relating to the deafness sector, or theinterpreting industry, can be exchanged.
- Collate, disseminate and provide relevant information for ASLIAQ members.
- Raise funds to further the objects of the ASLIAQ.
