Hire a Haitian Creole Interpreters

No, and this is the most important question on the page. Haitian Creole is a separate language with its own grammar, not a dialect of French. Many Haitian speakers have limited French and some have none at all, so a French interpreter sent to a Creole speaker will produce an incomplete record. We ask which language the speaker uses at home at intake and assign on that answer.

No. Haitian Creole is not one of the twelve certified spoken languages in California, which are Arabic, Cantonese, Eastern Armenian, Farsi, Filipino (Tagalog), Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese. Haitian Creole interpreters credential through the registered path, which requires the written exam, the oral proficiency exam in English and the oral proficiency exam in the target language where one is offered. See our court-certified interpreters page for how certified and registered differ.

There is not. The federal court interpreter certification examination is offered for Spanish and English testing only. For Haitian Creole the Administrative Office's category is professionally qualified, reached through a State Department or United Nations examination, a National Center for State Courts examination, or AIIC or TAALS membership with English in the pair. We name which of those a proposed interpreter has met rather than describing them as certified.

Yes, and it is the largest share of our Haitian Creole work. Personal injury, workers' compensation, disability and benefits hearings and the medical appointments those claims generate. Body parts, treatment history, job duties and dates are read back rather than paraphrased. See our deposition interpreters page for the read-back conventions.

Yes. Hospital consultations, specialist clinics, independent medical examinations and behavioural health sessions are regular assignments, and the interpreter is briefed on the clinical vocabulary and on the consent and discharge conversation beforehand. See our medical interpreters page.

Onsite strength is in Florida, New York and Massachusetts, which is where the Haitian-American population concentrates, and by video remote nationwide. Our bench runs to roughly 48 interpreters across the network, a dozen of them in Florida. For a metro we do not cover onsite we say so before you confirm rather than after.

Yes. Individualised education programme meetings, disciplinary conferences and parent evenings come up regularly in Haitian Creole, and the interpreter is briefed on the programme vocabulary because the acronyms do not translate on sight.

Yes, as separate written work from the interpreter. Our certified document translation covers civil records, medical records, school records and exhibits, with certificates of accuracy accepted by courts and agencies.