Margaret Weiss with her first child, Odelia. She’s pregnant again and due July 24, and this time she’s suing her local hospital for not providing an onside sign-language interpreter in the delivery ...

The following is the first article in the six-part series Deaf in Utah. The next article will run on Feb. 2. Kim Smith knew from the start that video remote interpreting was going to become a problem.

Sometimes, even the simplest things, like making a telephone call, can be so complicated. In the past, whenever Mafalda Rubano and Dana Ricci, who are both deaf, wanted to talk to each other on the ...

As Lothair, a white Sheltie therapy dog, makes his way in to United States Air Force Hospital Langley in Hampton, Va., for his weekly visit to meet with patients, he walks tall and proud into the ...

Update:Oregon Association of the Deaf president Chad Ludwig tells the Statesman Journal that he has set a meeting with Salem Hospital to discuss its interpretive services program on Aug. 27. Ludwig ...

— A deaf woman who struggled for two weeks to communicate with doctors and nurses as she underwent tests and was diagnosed with kidney cancer now is being provided with sign language interpreters 24 ...

Two years ago, Connecticut hospitals and the state’s deaf residents came to an agreement guaranteeing that a sign language interpreter arrive in an examining room within an hour of the need for care.

The Rhode Island Association of the Deaf is suing Providence, R.I.-based Lifespan Health for allegedly not providing qualified sign language interpreters to communicate with deaf patients or their ...

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A health trust has apologised to a deaf couple after hospital staff did not know what a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter was. Colleen Agnew's husband was taken to hospital recently after an ...

A nurse at Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Fla., activated a video screen with an internet link to connect Jennylee Bruno to an American sign language interpreter. Minutes later, Bruno’s worst fear ...