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#WhereIsTheInterpreter – The Fight for Interpreters During Live Emergency Broadcasts

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It is critical for everyone to be informed of the important guidelines that we need to follow when there is a global pandemic and it is a life and death situation.

Unfortunately, d/Deaf people are not informed as adequately as they should be.

Even though there are government guidelines to be followed when they do their live emergency broadcasting, deaf/Deaf sign language users tend to be forgotten about.

Hence why the hashtag #WhereIsTheInterpreter, originally started by Lynn Stewart-Taylor, has been trending in the UK to do something about this.

Learn more about #WhereIsTheInterpreter here

How to Make a Deaf/Hard of Hearing Person Feel Included?

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For most, if not all d/Deaf and hard of hearing people, social events can be an awkward one and a difficult one at the same time.

If everyone is talking and the environment is not right, then it’s very easy to feel secluded and left alone.

But what if you, as a hearing person, want to prevent that? How can you help to make a d/Deaf/hard of hearing person feel included, at least as much as possible?

Learn how to make a deaf person feel included here

‘Stop Language Deprivation & Encourage Language Acquisition for Deaf Children’ with Kimberly Sanzo from Language First

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In this episode, I got chatting Kimberly Sanzo of Language First who has an incredible insight in the world of language deprivation that d/Deaf children can go through and the importance of having the right environment to encourage language acquisition.

Like all interviews on this podcast, I come away with a different on a topic that I don’t have lot of knowledge about but after chatting to Kimberly, it has opened up my mind about the power of sign languages, and I’m sure it will do the same to you too.

Listen or read the interview with Kimberly Sanzo here