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Announcement: We are excited to announce the 2008 6th annual TAPIT Conference to be held September 12-14, 2008 on the campus of Belmont University in Nashville, TN. This year, we are pleased to announce that if you attend all 3 days of the conference, you will fulfill the three-year requirement for general and foreign language credits!

There will also be be twice as many exhibitors, including veterans, Intrans Book Service and Tennessee Foreign Language Institute, plus many newcomers such as interpreter equipment supplier TN Communications.

Sign Language Interpreters may receive CEU credit from TRID. TRID is an Approved RID CMP Sponsor for Continuing Education Activities. These PS & GS programs are offered for up to 0.6 CEUs at the “Little/None” & “Some” Content Knowledge Level. For more information please visit www.tnrid.org

Download the Conference Brochure; it has lots of information that you can use: area hotels, schedules, speakers bios, parking, etc., click HERE.

LOCATION INFORMATION For the Conference

The main sessions are on the 4th floor of the Massey Business Center (MBC) Board Room. Concurrent sessions are across from it in Room 414.

ParkingandQuickfacts.pdf
In the above Parking and Quick facts .pdf file, you will see that the Massey Business Center is No. 6; it faces Wedgewood Ave. The closest parking garage in No. 9 in the parking map. But you can also park in the Curb Event Center Parking Garage on Bernard Ave. It is No. 17.

If you stay at one of the 3 hotels we used, they have free shuttles that will take you from hotel to the Conference and back.

To ask questions, or discuss the upcoming conference, also, to facilitate car-pooling for the Conference, register on the list-serv and you will automatically get all messages to your e-mail account.

To download Membership Registration Form, click HERE

To download Conference Registration Form, click HERE

Be sure to visit our exhibitors and sponsors at the Conference:

SPONSORS

· - Pacific Interpreters

· - Tennessee Foreign Language Institute

EXHIBITORS

· - Chinese Chamber of Commerce

· -InTrans Book Service

· - Tennessee Association of Medical Interpreters and Translators

· - Tennessee Council for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

· - TN Communications

EXHIBITORS and SPONSORS, click HERE for complete information

UPCOMING TAPIT EVENTS FOR 2008

September 12, Medical Friday, Nashville

September 13-14, Annual TAPIT Conference, Nashville

November 22, Medical Interpreter Workshop with Cindy Roat, MPH, Knoxville Click HERE for latest information!

UPCOMING TAPIT EVENTS FOR 2009

January 17-19 (MLK weekend), Tape Transcription and Translation
Workshop with Judith Kenigson-Kristy, Nashville

April 4, 2009, Legal Medical Interpretation & Translation Workshop
with Holly Mikkelson, Memphis

September 11, Medical Friday, Nashville

September 12-13, Annual Tapit Conference, Nashville

Announcement: We are pleased to announce a new feature of the web site! We now have a new list-serve. The list-serve can be found HERE. Stop over and register today so you can begin posting!

TAPIT is a professional organization for interpreters and translators of written, spoken and signed languages in Tennessee. Among Tapit's members are experts in diverse specialties and professional fields such as judicial, medical and other technical fields.

The creation of such an organization could not have come at a better time. Professional interpretation and translation facilitates communication for Tennessee's businesses and governmental agencies, as well as their peers and clients all over the world.

Professional interpretation and translation bridges gaps, breaks down language barriers, and helps to ensure effective communication between Tennesseans with and without English proficiency, in the public and private sectors.

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE, ARABIC, BOSNIAN, CATALAN, CROATIAN, FARSI, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, PORTUGUESE, RUSSIAN, SERBIAN, SPANISH, UKRAINIAN