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'We think we got it all': Governor's ASL translator Virginia Moore provides positive cancer update

FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — Virginia Moore, an American Sign Language interpreter seen at Governor Andy Beshear's COVID-19 news conferences, says she is "doing very well" after announcing she was ...
NBC Los Angeles

ASL Interpreters Explain Importance of Their Work During the Coronavirus

They’re used to explaining speeches and press conferences, but American Sign Language interpreters are saying the coronavirus pandemic has presented the most difficult and inspiring assignment of ...
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Gov. Beshear's ASL translator, Virginia Moore, back at Monday's news conference after absence

FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — Virginia Moore is back as the American Sign Language interpreter at Governor Andy Beshear's COVID-19 news conferences. Governor Beshear begins his COVID-19 briefing today by ...
University of Wyoming

American Sign Language (ASL)

ASL is a complete and complex language that employs signs made by moving the hands combined with facial expressions and postures of the body. ASL is the language of the Deaf community in the United ...
ABC 7 Chicago

Students Invent Gloves That Translate Sign Language Into Speech

Two college students have created a pair of talking gloves to help the deaf and mute communicate with the hearing world. University of Washington undergrads Tommy Pryor and Navid Azodi invented a pair ...
Columbus Dispatch

Sign-language classes translate to vocation for Westerville South graduate

For Westerville's Marlena "Lena" Smith, who is one of three American Sign Language interpreters regularly present at Gov. Mike DeWine's daily COVID-19 coronavirus press conferences, a passion for ...