This 1-hour asynchronous course is designed for medical interpreters and translators who support patients undergoing treatment for neurological conditions. These often require complex medication regimens, ranging from anticonvulsants and antiepileptics to treatments for neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. This session will guide language professionals through the terminology and communication challenges associated with neurological medications, including their mechanisms, dosage scheduling, common uses, and potential side effects. Learners will have the chance to put concepts into practice through interpreting exercises built around real patient stories.

Medical interpreters and translators often interpret for patients affected by neurological conditions, like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and epilepsy.

This course will help you:

• Recognize different types of neurological conditions.
• Identify linguistic challenges associated with epilepsy care.
• Define Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease and their treatments.
• Demonstrate understanding through sight translation practice.
• Review the steps to perform a sight translation.

• Causes of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and epilepsy
• Common medications and treatments used to treat tremors, memory loss, and seizures caused by these conditions
• Types of seizures: generalzed tonic-clonic, absence, focal onset, etc.
• Real-world interpreting skills practice in English and Spanish with three sight translation excerpts