UIndy grad uses research to bring awareness about language barriers in health care

Language barriers can affect anyone’s life, but one University of Indianapolis graduate dedicated her honors project to understanding how language barriers impact patients in health care settings.

Mary Burton and Maribel Campoy, assistant professor of Spanish at UIndy, joined Daybreak on WISH-TV to discuss more.

“I really wanted to do something that would impact my future career. One day I was just in a hospital, and I saw a sign that has translation for different languages. I was like, I wonder how it works, being in the U.S. and not speaking English as your primary language. I really wanted to look into it,” Burton said. [continue reading]