AIT 2023 - INTERPRETING ABOUT THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER ASD IN A PSI CONTEXT

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09/10/23

Abstract:
Interpreters receive little to no briefing and sometimes assignments are harder than expected to tackle. Children with autism, learning disabilities and learning difficulties receive help from a multi-disciplinary team that includes psychologists, teachers, paediatricians, psychiatrists, speech and language therapists and social workers that can meet to discuss the child’s progress and a plan forward.
The talk will cover the following:
• What is autism?
• What is a learning difficulty?
• What is a learning disability?
• The road to diagnosis
• The multi-disciplinary team
• Education arrangements
• Acronyms and jargon

Speaker's Biography:
Florencia Pistritto, DPSI, MCIL is an Argentinian interpreter based in West Lothian, Scotland. She specialises in Health and works for the Interpretation and Translation Service of The City of Edinburgh Council since 2017, mostly with primary and secondary schools and Social Services. Florencia is currently working on her dissertation to obtain her master’s degree in Translation Studies.
In addition to her work, she is a member of CIOL’s Scottish Society Steering Group and helps organising Continuous Professional Development events for linguists and is one of the moderators of the largest online support group for Osteosarcoma and Ewing’s Sarcoma patients. In the past she was a Campaigns Ambassador for Cancer Research UK and a public speaker for Macmillan, to raise awareness of the importance of the early diagnosis of the disease.