Members of Toronto’s deaf community are praising the increased use of sign language interpreters at news conferences amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Often at the corner of television screens or behind the podium in recent weeks, officials are joined by an interpreter signing the latest details on the coronavirus situation. “The information is becoming much more clear for us.
It’s very visual,” said Wayne Nicholson, president of the Canadian Association of Sign Language Interpreters, signing through an interpreter.
He credits recent federal legislation — the Accessible Canada Act, signed last year — for the jump in the use of sign language at announcements, particularly in recent days. “The information is changing on a daily basis and that
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