Interpreters convert information from one language to another — or, in the case of sign language interpreters, between spoken language and sign language. For the latter, they interpret both spoken ...

Jennifer Upah-Kyes remembers watching, letter by letter, as an unlicensed American Sign Language interpreter fingerspelled what her teachers were saying during her junior and senior years of high ...

To enhance the skills of interpreters in the field, Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf now is offering five certificate programs in American Sign Language ...

ASL is a complete and complex language that employs signs made by moving the hands combined with facial expressions and postures of the body. ASL is the language of the Deaf community in the United ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A new proposal in the ...

MOORHEAD - A shortage of sign language interpreters in the region has officials from a local college taking matters into their own hands. Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Moorhead is ...

There is a large population of deaf people in Palm Beach County and the demand for interpreting services is extremely high but no college here offers a training program for interpreters. Why is that?

She isn't deaf, but Margie Propp says she's more comfortable signing than speaking. Her father, who lost his hearing at age 15, helped found the Nebraska Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, a ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF)— A new proposal in the Missouri state legislature is sparking outrage among people in the deaf and hard of hearing community. “It is a slap in the face,” said James Frost, ...