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ItemInterpreter services for Australian migrant communities and problems related to the provision and training of interpreters( 1986)A documentation of the development and implementation of support services for migrants must consider two types of support: 1. Assisting migrants to acquire English language skills in order to be able to function as members of the community, and an appreciation, by the community, especially by professionals and service agencies, of the difficulties resulting from incomplete or insufficient language competence and from cultural differences. 2. The availability of interpreter services for non-English speaking individuals and for those professionals or agencies servicing the needs of non- or minimal English sneaking individuals or groups. Though the need for interpreter services was initially thought to be a short-term need, based on the assumption that non- English speaking settlers would quickly acquire sufficient English language skills to be able to function as members of the Australian community, evidence, presented within this thesis, substantiates the claim that the need for interpreter services will be a long-term one in the Australian context. This thesis attempts to bring together information relating to policies developed and efforts made in the period of 1945 to the present day, in order to provide an overview of what has been achieved, the impact on the community and evaluation which has taken place. Documentation provided clearly demonstrates that the provisions made do not provide adequate interpreter services as support services to any but a small (if growing) percentage of those within the community who are linguistically disadvantaged, particularly as the services are largely based within government departments and not community based.