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A Role for Sign Language Interpreters: Preserving the Linguistic Human Rights of Deaf People

A Role for Sign Language Interpreters: Preserving the Linguistic Human Rights of Deaf People

| September 18, 2012 | 40 Comments

As a coda when I left home to go to college, I never dreamed that I was leaving my mother tongue. It never dawned on me that there wouldn’t be deaf people where I was going and that ASL would be nowhere in sight. Never were my eyes so lonely. Much like an immigrant leaving [...]

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