About SLIS (Sign Language Interpreting Service)

Mission Statement
SLIS will promote, represent, advocate and ensure the availability of quality interpretation services to Deaf people in Ireland.

The overall goal of SLIS is to ensure that Deaf people can easily exercise their rights & entitlements under the Equal Status & Disability Acts and access their rights and entitlements to public and social services. 

Background to SLIS
Sign Language Interpreting Service (SLIS) is the National Sign Language Interpreting Service for Ireland. We were established upon the recommendation of the 2006 Prospectus Report on Sign Language Interpreting Services & Provision in Ireland, through the Citizens Information Board after the dissolution of the first national Interpreting Agency –Irish Sign Link.

Strategic Aims
In November 2010, the Board of SLIS carried out a comprehensive review of services & delivery to focus its resources to best meet the needs of the Deaf Community & Statutory obligations.  The resulting Strategy Document for 2011-2014 outlines the overall vision for the organisation:
The Board agreed that in the coming years, a newly reconstituted SLIS should focus its efforts in the following areas:
• Promoting and advocating for the right to high quality interpreting services – particularly in relation to the interaction of Deaf people with State agencies and services
• Promoting best practice in the field of sign language interpreting
• Advocating quality standards among interpreters and their client organisations
• Meeting social interpreting needs – which might otherwise remain unmet
• Actively working towards the introduction of new technologies with the potential to improve the quality of interaction for Deaf people
• Facilitating the delivery of a national emergency sign language interpreting service

For more information, please don’t hesitate to contact any of our staff in the offices.
From left to right you see
Audrey Campbell (Admin), Mairead Curry (Finance), Bernie Campbell (Reception), Elfrieda Carroll (Manager) and Margaret O’Connor (Admin)