Interpreters convert information from one language to another — or, in the case of sign language interpreters, between spoken language and sign language. For the latter, they interpret both spoken ...

ASL is a complete and complex language that employs signs made by moving the hands combined with facial expressions and postures of the body. ASL is the language of the Deaf community in the United ...

To enhance the skills of interpreters in the field, Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf now is offering five certificate programs in American Sign Language ...

MOORHEAD - A shortage of sign language interpreters in the region has officials from a local college taking matters into their own hands. Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Moorhead is ...

Michael Rizzolo ’78 (social work), ’86 MS (human services management) didn’t plan on learning American Sign Language when he came to RIT as a student, but he grew interested and eventually became an ...