Advocates argue that removing ASL interpreters denies deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans the ability to fully participate in civic life. Federal disability law requires reasonable accommodations to ...
MANILA, Philippines – In one of its significant inclusivity measures in 2025, the Supreme Court approved the rules on Filipino Sign Language (FSL) interpreting in the judiciary, a development ...
Toby Wong is a late-deafened board director & marketer breaking barriers. Supports Gold House, Collective Visibility & Disability Belongs. deaf female business executive using a cochlear implant ...
GRAND RAPIDS – Staff at McLaren Greater Lansing violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when they failed to provide a woman with an American Sign Language interpreter, a woman claims in a federal ...
Google is now ready to offer live help for accessibility features regardless of your hearing. The search firm now offers Disability Support through American Sign Language, letting you troubleshoot ...
For deaf people, language deprivation during early childhood represents the most significant threat to the exercise of their civil rights and liberties. Nearly all of our clients in these cases were ...
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet famously asks, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” She wonders how the name someone has can define them, ...
The United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Nairobi — in collaboration with the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Kenya, and the Kenya Society for the Blind (KSB) ...
For those who have never heard of the social model of disability it is best explained as the civil rights view of disablement. It separates impairment from disability and focuses on the responsibility ...
The Minister of, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, has announced plans to make sign language Ghana’s 13th official language as part of ...