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9/13/19  9:35 pm
Commenter: Tom Dowling, Deaf Consumer

Study to Consider Licensure for Sign Language Interpreters
 

i support for the study because it’s a vital for deaf/hard of hearing consumers or others who are unable to communicate fully in an understood speech and who are dependent on American Sign Language to receive appropriate service by skilled sign language interpreters in effective communication between them and concerned parties, such as legal, medical, court, or public safety people. In fact, we are comfortable in interfacing with them by other mean in visual communication than lip reading or listening different or various foreign spoken accents. We must recognize that many of us have been language deprived over the years we have had by limited service in our early childhood times. Again, we must be protected in our right to access communication in any situation that may affect them, in health, financial, or emergency preparedness terms. For the agency, like DPOR,to be effective in licensuring, they must have a working relationship with Virginia Department for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (VDDHH) or any recognized interpreteing organization, like Registered Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) to assure that the evaluation on their skill be met..

 

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