The challenges of translating the clinical outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) into British Sign Language.

@article{Rogers2013TheCO,
  title={The challenges of translating the clinical outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) into British Sign Language.},
  author={Katherine D. Rogers and Alys Young and Karina Lovell and Chris Evans},
  journal={Journal of deaf studies and deaf education},
  year={2013},
  volume={18 3},
  pages={
          287-98
        }
}
This article discusses translation issues arising during the production of a British Sign Language (BSL) version of the psychological outcome measure "Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure" (CORE-OM). The process included forward translation, meeting with a team of translators, producing a second draft of the BSL version and back translating into English. Further modifications were made to the BSL version before piloting it with d/Deaf populations. Details of the translation… 
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