The one where Dr. Jeni Rodrigues and Eliana Lobo cracked the cipher of the language access for D/deaf and hard of hearing community.
Jeni shared highlights of her dissertation, a study about barriers to receiving adequate medical care and stigma towards the D/deaf and hard of hearing people.
She is determined to compile a step-by-step guide on using the best practices when providing healthcare services to D/deaf and hard of hearing patients based on her research.
If you want to know how the study was conducted and get the answers to the questions like: Is every D/deaf and hard of hearing patient able to lip read?Do all healthcare providers know the legal obligations towards ASL patients?How Covid pandemic affected the ASL interpretation field?What are the differences and similarities between interpretation for LEP patients and D/deaf and hard of hearing patients?What could make a real change in the approach to language access in general and ASL interpreting in particular?And finally, how does the “if you build it, they will come”-philosophy relate to the language access planning within the US healthcare system?
The one where Dr. Jeni Rodrigues and Eliana Lobo cracked the cipher of the language access for D/deaf and hard of hearing community.
Jeni shared highlights of her dissertation, a study about barriers to receiving adequate medical care and stigma towards the D/deaf and hard of hearing people.
She is determined to compile a step-by-step guide on using the best practices when providing healthcare services to D/deaf and hard of hearing patients based on her research.
If you want to know how the study was conducted and get the answers to the questions like: Is every D/deaf and hard of hearing patient able to lip read?Do all healthcare providers know the legal obligations towards ASL patients?How Covid pandemic affected the ASL interpretation field?What are the differences and similarities between interpretation for LEP patients and D/deaf and hard of hearing patients?What could make a real change in the approach to language access in general and ASL interpreting in particular?And finally, how does the “if you build it, they will come”-philosophy relate to the language access planning within the US healthcare system?