On March 23 and 24th the Tampa Bay Renfest will be having their deaf appreciation weekend. Come and have lots of beer and fun. Interpreters from Angel Interpreting and the students of USF will be providing the Interpreting. The gates open at 10:00am and the fun and shows continue until 5:30pm You can contact Angel …
Bethesda Hospital settles the lawsuit. The hospital was forcing deaf to use VRI (Video Remote Interpreting) or writing notes and refusing to call a live interpreter. Click here to see the full Story
The Baptist Health South Florida is facing a lawsuit from several deaf patients. The hospital has refused to provide live interpreters. They are wanting to write notes, read lips or use VRI (Video Relay Interpreters). Unfortunately sometimes this is not effective communication. The VRI is slow or is put in a position that is not appropriate for …
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Kern County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested Jennifer Mello, a Deaf lady and held her for 5 days without a sign language interpreter. Then she went to court and still no ASL interpreter. See the full story here
