English to ASL skill development activities will be employed using ... Through this process, interpreters will learn to recognize unfamiliar medical terms, constructs, and jargon in order to better ...

Similarly to how there are certain terms that are part of Northern American English and others that are part of Southern American English, ASL has different varieties of slang terms, signs ...

The MS in health care interpretation is specifically designed for nationally certified ASL-English interpreters interested in ... as more deaf and hard-of-hearing professionals enter medical/health ...

"It's entrenched in the medical system and in the educational system." Opponents of teaching ASL to deaf students say it could negatively impact their ability to learn spoken language, isolate ...

At the urging, opens new tab of the U.S. Justice Department, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived a lawsuit filed by Neil Basta against Novant Health Inc and its Huntersville Medical ...

Medical language can sometimes stump patients. And some common sayings are straight-up head-scratchers. Calling a patient’s neurological exam “grossly intact,” for example, might not sound ...

A new study shows that American Sign Language (ASL) is more linguistically complex than previously understood. In particular, new research documents the emergence of the copula --- a word meaning ...

She works as a sign language interpreter with the deaf community, and her specialty is interpreting between deaf patients and medical personnel ... called signing, ASL is a complete nonverbal ...

Jessica Wohlstetter, who teaches ASL at the College of Staten Island, Hudson County Community College and Montclair State University, led the training for this newest batch of officers ...