LLS Ethics

1. 1. Interpreters must always render, to the best their abilities, a complete message without additions or omissions.

• Professional Courtesy

• Professional Development

• Accuracy and Completeness

• Confidentiality

2. 2. Interpreters should refrain from showing bias or any conduct that may lead to believe there is bias.

• Confidentiality

• Impartiality

• Conflict of Interest

• Professional Courtesy

3. 3. Interpreters should always notify and NOT take advantage of this situations wether they are financial or otherwise.

• Conflict of Interest

• Confidentiality

• Accuracy and Completeness

• Impartiality

4. 4. Interpreters must show excellent customer service, tone of voice, and a professional demeanor and defer to the instructions of their clients.

• Professional Development

• Accuracy

• Confidentiality

• Professional Courtesy

5. 5. All the information that interpreters render must always be destroyed and never communicated, published, or divulged.

• Confidentiality

• Impartiality

• Conflict of Interest

• Disqualifications and Impediments.

6. 6. The interpreters must always interpret only in the authorized language by LLS, even if they are fluent in other languages.

• Impartiality

• Accreditation

• Disqualification and impediments

• Professional Courtesy

7. 7. Interpreters must continously improve their skills.

• Professional Courtesy

• Disqualifications and Impediments

• Confidentiality

• Professional Development

8. 8. Interpreters must always adhere to their responsibilities and not stray from their duties.

• Disqualifications and impediments

• Impartiality

• Professional Courtesy

• Accuracy and Completeness