Episode 314 - Tutorial: Working With an Interpreter

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Behavioralscience, Education, Appliedbehavioranalysis, Autism, Social Sciences, Aba, Science, Specialeducation

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

As part of the work of a behavior analyst, our ethical code requires us to explain our services in language that can be understood by clients and stakeholders. That holds doubly true when our clients speak a primary language other than English. And just busting out Google Translate isn’t going to cut it! In the next entry in our Tutorial series, we break out the “how to” basics behind following best practices when working with an interpreter in delivering ABA services. From meaningful feedback and collaboration with an interpreter to ensuring a respectful flow of communication between all parties, we’ll get your practice up to speed in no time. Well, at least in the time it takes to listen to this episode.

This episode is available for 1.0 CULTURAL (ETHICS) CEU.

Articles discussed this episode:

Dowdy, A., Obidimalor, K.C., Tinanci, M., & Travers, J.C. (2021). Delivering culturally sound and high-quality behavior analytic services when working with an interpreter. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, 21, 51-64. doi: 10.1037/bar0000206

Vasquez, D.J., Lechago, S.A., & McCarville, M.J. (2024). Training behavior analysis graduate students to work with an interpreter. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 17, 1160-1174. doi: 10.1007/s40617-024-00938-w

Hadziabdic, E., Albin, B., Heikkila, K., & Hjelm, K. (2014). Family members’ experiences of the use of interpreters in healthcare. Primary Health Care Research and Development, 15, 156-169. doi: 10.1017/S1463423612000680

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0:21.8	always are my fabulous co-hosts. Hello, Rob, it's me, Diana, Perry, Cruz. Did you almost say
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0:38.7	You didn't even watch that movie.
0:39.7	Yeah, you didn't even get that joke. No, but now I get the joke.
0:40.6	Oh, okay.
0:40.9	Now I get it.
0:41.8	All right.
0:42.2	I'm cool.
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0:49.3	Our friend thinks that's so funny. She listened to one of our episodes. And every time she sees me now and she said it and I
0:54.6	forgot that we said it, she was like, hey, Jackie Knott Perry Cruz. And I was like, what? And she was
0:59.5	like, ha ha ha, the podcast. And I was like, oh, she's not a behavior analyst. So that's why it was weird.
1:04.1	It was way out of context. Oh, it's out of context. Yeah. That's fair. Ah, yeah. But this podcast is about behavior analysis and behavior analytic research where every week we pick a topic and discuss it.
1:13.9	We usually, we do some bits, but I was told no bits at the start of the show.
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