Deaf Community Needs More Interpreters

The Rio Grande Valley has close to 10-thousand people who are deaf or hard of hearing. The problem is there are only about 44 certified interpreters right here in the valley. With a statistic like that many in the deaf community feel neglected and that the valley is falling way behind.

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• Rio Grande Valley
• Hearing Impaired
• Deaf
• Deaf Community
• Interpreters
• Hearing
• Hearing Impairment
• Hearing Interpreter
• Sign Language
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[nyce2meetu]

GloZell

[mavacat]

you not only one.. Alaska state . most of towns struggle.. ,, we are having trouble in our big citys not enuff inteprters or acess to deaf needs.

[TheKittyWonder]

I want to be an deaf interpreter but there's no college near me for ASL. T.T

[OccupyNAD]

I can see that an interpreter is not fluently. It is because of 1% that caused great sovereign. End up always with female interpreter is because of almost NONE of Men want that kind of job. 95% female interpreter in USA. Why is that? It is sex inequality likewise... Get Deaf People involve Hand-On Interaction at Free College But problem They need Job that could not come to the college to work with student who wants to be an interpreter. Remove Capitalism!

[DeafEllen]

Great vlog and it's time we had a discussion about this in the news. It's not just in Rio, it's all over North America lack of high skilled interpreters. What else I liked about this vlog was that you didn't cut out the signing, I could see the Deaf person's signing. I 'm Deaf and I prefer to see what the Deaf person says than to read the captioning or see the hearing person talking about what the Deaf person says.