Vancouver’s PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to provide a ...

# FREE National Movement Chairman Dr Duane Sands said the reported failure to provide a sign language interpreter to a deaf patient at Princess Margaret Hospital was “very much” a violation of the ...

A review by STAT of court records and inspection reports of hospitals around the nation found dozens of instances in which deaf patients said they were not given adequate interpreter services. In one ...

PHOENIX – A Flagstaff hospital agreed to pay $50,000 to a patient who accused the facility of discrimination for failing to provide a sign language interpreter, authorities said Tuesday. Flagstaff ...

Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System has agreed to pay $145,000 to settle a lawsuit that claimed one of its hospitals violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act by ...

Help is there if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. In the US: Call or text 988, the National Suicide Prevention LifelineGlobally: The International ...

As a result of language dysfluency caused by language deprivation, psychiatric assessment of DHH American Sign Language users is complex. 36 Mental health providers must understand the trauma that is ...

Among many factors that determine an individual’s access to healthcare, the language of medicine stresses a fundamental distinction between communication and transaction. To access healthcare is to ...