Disabled people face many problems in their lived reality, as evidenced by the content of the
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Disabled people are constantly …

The aim of this chapter is to contextualise the role of sign language interpreters and
translators within a Deaf jurisprudence framework. Several critical issues and topics are …

In this paper, I explore how social movement participation may impact the personal and
professional lives of interpreters. To do so, I studied the American Sign Language/English …

Research on British Sign Language (BSL) Interpreting has emerged from the wider field of
interpreting and translation studies and deaf studies. Early attention to linguistic aspects of …

In 1988, members of the American deaf community protested the appointment of a hearing
person as the president of Gallaudet University, the world's only university for deaf and hard …

Over the last decade, members of the Hong Kong Deaf community, together with Deaf and
non-Deaf interpreters, have been working towards advancing Deaf linguistic human rights in …