SPI is the professional society for working interpreters. Membership carries 24 hours of accredited CEUs a year, 24 hours of live one to one practice, practice sessions and events through the year, and the Commons. Your hours log themselves as you earn them.
24 hours of accredited CEUs, 24 hours of live one to one practice, practice sessions and events through the year, verifiable badges, and the Commons.
Apply to join The academy · TrainingNew to interpreting, or adding a specialty? The AALB academy teaches live classes with bookable Skills Lab sessions, a simulated clinic exam room, and proctored exams.
Start at the academyInterpreting is unregulated. SPI puts a standard in front of it. The Society is where working interpreters keep learning: accredited continuing education, live practice one to one, sessions and events through the year, and badges reviewed by staff, never self-claimed.
A full year of accredited continuing education comes with membership, and your hours log themselves as you earn them.
One to one, live, with someone working opposite you rather than a recording.
Sessions run through the year, so keeping sharp is a habit rather than something you have to arrange.
Gatherings through the year for the people who do this work, and your hours log themselves.
Certifications, licensure, and language proficiency show as badges only after SPI staff review the evidence.
A members' community for the craft: the questions, the hard calls, and the people who have been there.
Still in training? The Apprentice path is free while you finish, and free for AALB students: recorded continuing education while you build toward full standing.
Applying is free. Full membership dues are billed only after an application is accepted, never to apply.
Most directories let anyone write anything. At SPI, credentials are reviewed by staff before a single badge appears, and the record keeps proving itself over time.
National certifications (CCHI, NBCMI, NAJIT), state licenses, and training milestones are checked by staff and stored as verifiable badges.
Recognized third-party proficiency documentation puts a verified rating on each language, on the ILR scale institutional clients already trust. Languages without documentation are shown as unverified.
Continuing education auto-logs to the record: 72 hours a year across accredited CEUs, live practice, and engagement. Verification you can watch grow.
At 2 a.m., a verified interpreter is not a line item.
When a Dari speaker arrives in your emergency department, language access becomes the difference between informed consent and confusion. SPI exists so the person in that room is trained, verified, and still getting better, and paid fairly for it.
Society of Professional Interpreters · A program of Americans Against Language Barriers