Eaton SIGN LANGUAGE Interpreting Services

Specialties

American Sign Language Interpreters serving the Sacramento and Northern California areas since 1994.

History

Established in 1994.

In 1993, Hewlett Packard (HP) opened a bid for interpreting services. The local Deaf service agency could not bid on the proposal since HP wanted an interpreter to be available for their twelve Deaf employees on a daily on-​call basis. I applied for the bid and won. As the demand for services increased, I asked colleagues to team with me or to cover other meetings that were occurring concurrently. There were no overhead costs (since the interpreters billed separately for their services) nor did I charge HP for coordinating interpreting services. After several years, HP determined that they could not handle all of the separate monthly invoices and requested that I submit one monthly invoice. I wondered how I could accomplish that and hence, Eaton Interpreting Services, Inc. was founded. After 16 years, Eaton Interpreting Services continues to provide services to HP and their employees.

Meet the Business Owner

Kim E.

Business Owner

Kim attended a high school near Sacramento, California that had a Deaf program and offered American Sign Language, ASL, as an elective. Being intrigued with the language, she took two years of sign language and then continued her training at American River College. She completed the Interpreter Training Program in 1985. In 1994, she received her Level IV-​Advanced Interpreter Certification from the National Association of the Deaf. In 1995, she received a Certificate of Interpretation and a Certificate of Transliteration from the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc. With the goal of providing the highest quality sign language interpreting services, Kim founded Eaton Interpreting Services, Inc., (EIS). EIS has evolved into a community-​oriented agency offering interpreting services, information and referral, and assisting businesses with their legal compliance obligations. We became a Certified Small Business with the State of CA in 2001 and became incorporated in 2003.