Innovation Grant Helps Lower Language Barrier in Dental Hygiene Clinic

Students, faculty, and staff of Virginia Western’s Dental Hygiene Clinic are all smiles thanks to an Innovation Grant that made it possible for the program to secure a translation service to better serve patients who speak languages other than English. The grant was awarded to the Dental Hygiene Program in June 2023, and students began using the translation service, Volatia Language Network, in spring 2024.

Read this story by Allison Taylor here:

https://www.virginiawestern.edu/news/2024/11/19/innovation-grant-helps-lower-language-barrier-in-dental-hygiene-clinic

(This story was published in the Winter 2025 edition of Impact magazine, a publication of the Virginia Western Community College Educational Foundation.)