I am Iori Arakawa, a sign language interpreter. I share a wide range of information related to sign language.I have currently ...

The emotionality of ASL can free you from the trap of precision. By Hannah Seo When I arrived on the second floor of a commercial building in Manhattan for my first sign-language class, a man took one ...

In the 5th century B.C. Socrates pondered, "Suppose that we had no voice or tongue, and wanted to indicate objects to one another, should we not, like the deaf…make signs with the hands, head and the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — “No formal systematic training programs for interpreters have yet been developed,” a federal manual declared in 1965. But by then, a woman in Springfield had already spent nearly ...