The Department of Health offers the home care aide examination in the following languages: Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, English, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Russian, Samoan, Spanish, Somali, Tagalog, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
We provide an interpreter to read the home care aide examination. We will make an attempt to accommodate other languages not currently translated.
How to Apply for the Individual Interpreter Program
- Indicate your need for an interpreter and your preferred language when completing your credential application. When you register for your exam with Prometric, request an interpreter by submitting a testing accommodations request directly through their candidate portal.
- The interpreter will be reading and translating from the English version of the examination.
- The department makes no guarantees regarding the quality of the interpreter or that they speak the same dialect as the candidate. Candidates are encouraged to be as specific as possible in identifying the language and dialect when submitting their form.