Doctors¡¦ offices across the country are working hard to ensure that their deaf patients have equal opportunities when it comes to being informed about their personal health care by providing a professional sign language interpreter for their deaf patients during examinations.

Doctors also see the direct benefit of working with a professional sign language interpreter with their deaf patients because of the numbers of referrals they get from the deaf community. The Americans with Disabilities Act helps to ensure that deaf people have a voice wherever person-to-person communication is vital. It¡¦s important to remember that all deaf people want and deserve the same quality of life as hearing people. It¡¦s also important to remember that sign language is another language. It is the language of the deaf.

Effective communication is a key ingredient in any relationship and learning to communicate with a deaf person is an important step towards understanding their culture and jut how much we all have in common.