Providing Quality Sign Language Services since 1995
Birnbaum Interpreting Services (BIS) is a deaf-founded and CODA-operated company offering sign language interpreting, CART, and all forms of Deaf access services for government, business, healthcare, legal, education, and entertainment sectors, among dozens of others. BIS has been recognized by Forbes magazine as one of the top 500 small business successes in the US and has repeatedly been recognized by Deloitte and Touche with its Technology Fast 500 award.
Our Business Concept:
Headquartered in Silver Spring, MD, BIS is a Deaf-owned and operated company offering nationwide on-site and remote interpreting services for government, healthcare, legal, religious, business and entertainment environments.
BIS has been providing nationwide Video Remote Interpreting (VRI) services since 1997 and continues to expand programs across the nation, to include spoken language interpretation & translation and captioning services. Our array of options makes it possible for clients to use communication methods they feel most comfortable with.
We offer accurate, responsive and affordable interpreting services utilizing a full complement of experienced professionals who understand the ethical, confidential and communication responsibilities of their important role.
Why BIS?
- Our administrative team consists of Deaf and hard-of-hearing professionals as well as working interpreters to provide the industry and the consumer perspectives.
- We believe interpreters are here to serve hearing individuals as well as our Deaf consumers.
- Due to shifting industry dynamics, we take an integrated and responsive approach to providing equal communication access.
- We are on the U.S. federal government’s GSA Schedule. BIS is committed to providing the highest level of quality communication in the government and elsewhere.
- All interpreters follow the Code of Professional Conduct from Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf or American Translators Association.
- Our culture is focused entirely on providing the highest quality resources and services to ensure that all communication exceeds customer expectations.
BIS offers a wide range of interpreting and transliterating services to match virtually any environment, scenario or audience, on-site or virtually through Video Remote Interpreting (VRI).
BIS VRI is interoperable, meaning you can use it on several different devices. Our live dispatch system makes sure you don’t have any wait time. This is especially beneficial for last-minute assignments.
Services include on-site and remote CART, C-Print, TypeWell, notetaking, and post-production transcription. You choose the format. If we can hear it, we’ll type it.
On-site and remote foreign language interpreting, and document translations. Our interpreters and translators possess intricate cultural knowledge in order to convey the right messages.
Experts at BIS specialize in secure document translation to bring clarity through written dialogue and important documents.
BIS provides a number of workshops, seminars and training sessions for interpreters and businesses. We also provide customized workshops to fit the needs of individual agencies.