The Languages screen is one of many demographic screens used either when booking an offender into an institution, or when performing an intake on an offender for community work. The Languages screen records the offender's primary and secondary languages, and specifies if an interpreter is needed.
For institutional work: select Institutions Case Management Languages to access this screen from the Main Menu.
For community work: select Community Intake Languages from the Main Menu.
If necessary, query in the Header block to locate the offender.
Click Next Block to access the Primary Language/English Comprehension block, then complete the following fields:
English Comprehension/Read/Write/Speak: select from the List of Values a rating for the offender's English reading, writing and speaking skills (optional).
Interpreter Required checkbox: select this checkbox if the offender requires an interpreter to communicate in English (optional).
Primary Language: select from the List of Values the offender's first language (mandatory). Defaults to English.
Primary Language/Read/Write/Speak: These checkboxes are selected by default. Leave them selected to indicate that the offender reads, writes and speaks the primary language (mandatory).
Comment: enter comments about the offender's language skills (optional).
To record any other language(s) that the offender knows, click Next Block to access the Secondary Languages block.
In the Secondary Languages block, complete the following fields:
Language: select a secondary language from the List of Values (optional).
Read/Write/Speak checkboxes: leave selected to indicate that the offender reads, writes and speaks the secondary language (optional).
You can record any number of secondary languages by scrolling down to a blank line and repeating step 6.
Click Save.
From the Secondary Languages block, click Next Block to access the next screen in the booking or intake sequence.
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