Where interpreters keep getting better.
The Society of Professional Interpreters is the professional body for working interpreters. Interpreting is unregulated, and the Society puts a standard in front of it: accredited continuing education, practice hours that log themselves, and badges reviewed by staff rather than claimed by anyone who fancies them.
Applying is free. Dues are billed only after an application is accepted, never to apply.
Continuing Education Record
Society of Professional Interpreters
Maria Salazar
SpecimenBoston, MA · Member of the Society
- Badges
- CCHI, staff verified
- Standing
- Good standing
Two of them are already yours
You do not buy either of these. They come with the course, and the first one does not run out.
Alumni membership
Freefor life
Instructor-led practice for life, and real help getting hired from the people who trained you.
- Regular practice sessions, at least 24 hours a year
- Job placement assistance
- People to ask when the work raises a question
Lifetime means the organization's life, not a personal guarantee. While AALB exists, this is yours.
Full Society membership
Freefor three months, then dues
Everything alumni membership carries, and the rest of what the Society is for: accredited continuing education, a practice record that keeps itself, and standing that other people can verify.
- 24 hours of accredited CEUs a year
- 24 hours of practice a year
- Badges verified by Society staff
- The Commons, the members' community
Kept after three months by paying dues. Nothing is charged automatically at AALB, and nothing here is charged at all.
A standard, in a field that has none
Continuing education that counts
Accredited by CCHI and NBCMI, so the hours renew the certification you worked for rather than sitting in an inbox.
Logged automaticallyA record that keeps itself
Every hour of CEU and practice lands on your record as you earn it. Nothing to file, nothing to remember at renewal.
No paperworkBadges nobody can self-award
Certifications, licensure and language proficiency appear only after Society staff have reviewed the evidence behind them.
Earned, never claimedPeople who do this work
The Commons, and sessions and events through the year: the questions, the hard calls, and the interpreters who have been there.
Members onlyTwo organizations, one path
AALB trains interpreters. The Society is where they keep getting better afterwards. They share a mission and they share this offer, and they are run as separate things on purpose: your standing in the Society is not something your school can hand out.
Americans Against Language Barriers · 501(c)(3) · EIN 83-3016421