COVID-19 communications efforts is making history at the University of British Columbia.Nigel Howard has been front and centre during the pandemic as an American Sign Language interpreter during the province’s coronavirus briefings.
COVID-19: Face masks spark ‘fear and anxiety’ among deaf, hard of hearing Howard, who is deaf, is also an adjunct professor in linguistics at UBC, and this fall will teach the university’s first-ever ASL credit course, the introductory ASL 100.“This is a seed, we’re planting it and hopefully it will grow,” Howard told Global News, Tuesday.“People are recognizing deaf people are not disabled, they’ve got a language and culture, that they’re just like us — they just use a different language.”Howard has earned.