Landesdolmetscherzentrale für Gebärdensprache für hörbehinderte Menschen in Rheinland-Pfalz (LDZ)

The establishment and financing of a state centre in Rhineland-Palatinate for the provision of interpreters (Landesdolmetscherzentrale (LDZ)) for sign language is intended to support affected and unaffected people in quickly and
to find contact with a suitable sign language interpreter (GSD) as uncomplicated as possible. If language interpreters (SD) or other communication assistants are required, the appropriate contact persons should be referred.

Taking into account the right of choice and choice of the severely disabled hearing-impaired person, his individual advice should enable a tailor-made mediation, which includes both a timely accessibility and local mediation. This is intended to minimize the financial burden on the cost object (cost savings).

In detail, the work of mediating GSD, SD and suitable communication assistants also includes the following specific tasks:

• Creation and maintenance of an appropriate, barrier-free and user-friendly Internet presence in regularly updated form for the mediation of GSD, SD and other suitable communication assistants as well as for advice and information of users and interested parties,
• Creation and maintenance of a database with suitable communication assistants (in particular GSD) taking into account the data protection regulations
  provisions on public access,
• timely and local as well as appropriate and request-oriented mediation of suitable GSD,
• Timely and local as well as appropriate and request-oriented mediation of suitable SD and other communication assistants or mediation to the appropriate contact persons,
• on request and, if possible, advice to the user on the cost bearer for the use of interpreting and interpreting conditions,
• Support in clarifying the cost bearer for the use of interpreting as well as the interpreting conditions,
• intensive information as well as regional and supra-regional enlightenment and
  Public relations
• Participation in training courses and information events in cooperation or under the direction of the client,
• Establishment and maintenance of networks in cooperation with the Integration Office,
• Participation in the development of quality standards for GSD and
  Communication assistants in Rhineland-Palatinate in close cooperation and
  Coordination with the Integration Office.

The aim is to coordinate a nationwide basic care, especially at GSD, by ensuring the tasks of the LDZ. In response to incoming inquiries from hearing-impaired and hearing users, suitable communication assistants, in particular GSD, are to be provided in a timely, appropriate and request-oriented manner.

The mediation service takes place primarily via the Internet. The mediation order and the fulfillment are barrier-free and user-friendly as well as accessible in easy language.