Sign Language Blog

August 9, 2007 on 5:00 am | In Sign Language |

Student seeks to have sign language count for credit
WJRT - Is it foreign language? She says yes. The university says no. It’s a debate at colleges across the country. Some allow it and some don’t. For now, U of M-Flint does not consider sign language a foreign language. But one student’s complaint could

A Voice Apart for Richard
New York Sun - Unlike sign-language interpretation for deaf theatergoers or audio description for blind audiences, each of which is akin to subtitling, this conceit halves rather than supplements the performance. And in the process, it stymies the play’s other

Deaf seminarian has visual sense of religion
Boston Globe - How?” he pleads, using sign language interpreted by the Rev. Jeremy St. Martin, director of Deaf Catholic Ministries for the Archdiocese of Boston. “That bothered me a lot.” It was a rare instance of his disability (that’s society’s word; Carey calls

City unites in prayer for victims, survivors
Detroit News - An avid quilter, Sacorafas recently signed up for an American Sign Language course after a parishioner inspired her. “She thought she could become an interpreter and help people,” Dentinger said. “She was very outgoing. She would do anything for

Signs of Success
Morning Sun - between Holsworth and others can occasionally provide challenges, it rarely creates a barrier as his communication skills have increased greatly as he’s gotten older and his father Chris Holsworth also provides help on the field with sign language