LifeLinks Language Services

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LifeLinks Language Services
Thou shalt not put a stumbling-block before
the blind-Leviticus XIX, 11.
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US Healthcare System and Non-English Speaking
Individuals
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Language Usage 2002
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Available Languages

• The LifeLinks system can speak any of the
  following languages
• These 150 languages represent 99.8 of all
  customer requests from the 6,700 languages spoken
  in the world today, and is subject to change
  based on evolving customer needs.

Pampangan Pangasinan Pao-An Papiamento Pashto Pidg
in English Polish Portuguese Portuguese
Creole Punjabi Quechua Quiche Rhade Romanian Russi
an Samoan Sango Senegalese Serbian Shanghai
Afrikaans Akan Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian As
syrian Azerbaijani Bahnar Bambara Basque Belorussi
an Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Cantonese Cat
alan Chaldean Chaochow
Chavacano Cherokee Croatian Czech Dakota Danish Da
ri Diula Dutch Estonian Ewe Farsi Fijian
Finnish Flemish Fon French French
Canadian Fukienese Fuzhou Ga
Gaddang Gaelic Georgian German Greek Gujarati Hait
ian Creole Hakka Hawaiian Hebrew Hindi Hmong Hubei
Hungarian Hunanese Ibanag Ibo Icelandic Ilocano I
ndonesian
Italian Jakartanese Japanese Jarai Javanese Jola K
anjobal Kashmiri Khmer (Cambodian) Kikuyu Korean K
rio Kurdish Lakota Laotian Latvian Lingala Lithuan
ian Uganda
Luxembourgeois Macedonian Malay Malagasy Malayalam
Maltese Mandarin Mandinka Mankon Marathi Mien Mon
golian Navajo Neapolitan Nepali Nigerian
Pidgi EnglishNorwegian Ojibway Oromo
Sicilian Sinhalese Sindhi Slovak Slovenian Somali
Spanish Swahili Swedish Szechuan Tagalog Taiwanese
Tamil Tibetan Tigre Thai Tigrinya Toishanese Tong
an Toucouleur
TshilubaSango Senegalese Serbian Shanghai Sicilian
Sinhalese Sindhi Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish
Swahili Swedish Szechuan Tagalog Taiwanese Tamil T
ibetan Tigre Thai
Tigrinya Toishanese Tongan Toucouleur Tshiluba Tur
kish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Visayan Wolof Yiddi
sh Yoruba Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Visaya
n Wolof Yiddish Yoruba
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How It Works Medically Trained Interpreters
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Your Choice of Video-Interpreting Equipment

• Easy to use and learn
• Completely integrated system including camera,
  12.1" LCD screen,speakers,cables and microphone.
• Ultra thin portable frame.
• Bandwidth up to 768 kbps IP
• PC Card input for wireless LAN connection
• Highest level of standards-based encryption

• Fixed location or wireless
• Ideal for clinics, emergency room, admitting,
  etc
• Attachable to any monitor in your hospital
• Bandwidth up to 768 kbps IP

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LifeLinks Language Services
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Eleven Advantages of the LifeLinks Sign
Language Video-Interpreting System

Alternative Systems 1.Requires expensive ISDN
connection. Cannot be accessed except in
designated rooms / locations 2.Additional per
minute long distance tariff from Phone
Company 3.Available only certain
hours 4.Questionable healthcare
specialization/experience 5.Only one sign
language session possible at a time 6.Equipment
is expensive, heavy, difficult to move,
non-modular and expensive to upgrade 7.Replacemen
t equipment takes weeks to arrive 8.Video-interpr
eting either not available or limited in
languages and times 9.2-3x the price of phone
interpreting 10.Limited languages/times
11.Impossible to do.
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Ten More Advantages of the LifeLinks Sign
Language Video-Interpreting System
Alternative Systems 1.Takes 6-8 weeks just to
install line 2.Units are too expensive to
assign to one clinic exam room. 3.Impossible,
TV is suspended, unit is on ground 4.If stolen
or broken- a major catastrophic expense. 5.Units
weigh over 50 lbs. 6.Units need a
truck. 7.Screen is breakable. 8.Impossible/
cumbersome 9.Units are separate,
inelegant 10.Units are expensive, components
come from other manufacturers
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How To Reach LifeLinks Language Services