Advocacy

To: Steve Florio (RICDHH), Heather Niedbala (RIAD), Howard Rosenblum (NAD), Steve Brown (ACLU), Michael Évora, Esq. (RICHR), and Alex Spigelman (RIDLC) From: Dorothy Hodge MSL, CI, CT – Qualified Legal Interpreter for the Deaf Date: January 11, 2012 (Sent by…

The Importance of Interpreters The Governor’s question, “Why are we, at taxpayer’s expense, providing interpreters for people who want benefits from us?” should be answered by taking three elements into consideration, the quasi-legal setting, the linguistic complexities of sight translations,…