Access to Appropriate Interpretation is Essential for the Health of Children - CPS Podcast

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This CPS Podcast will review the CPS position statement “Access to appropriate interpretation is essential for the health of children”. It will be covering the importance of using professional interpretation services in the healthcare setting, and the potential harms of children and youth acting as unofficial interpreters. In many situations, children and youth are tasked to act as interpreters for family members in health care settings, which may place them in both inappropriate and difficult situations that can have lasting and negative impacts on their relationship with family members, as well as their own mental health. Th podcast was created by Angela Hu, a second-year medical student at McMaster University, in collaboration with Dr. Charles Hui, Chief of Infectious Diseases, Immunology and Allergy at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa, and Chair of the Caring for Kids New to Canada Task Force of the Canadian Paediatric Society.