Language Communications Plan News Today

A grant-funded program unveiled at a press conference at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford on Tuesday will seek to create greater understanding in the health care and education fields about communication with the deaf, hard of hearing, and DeafBlind community.

A man lying on a gurney stares up at the faces of a team of concerned medical doctors and nurses running down a hospital hallway. The man desperately tries communicating with them, but they seem confused by his hand gestures. The man’s face grows more desperate and terrified as they approach the end of a hallway into an operating room. The emotional video is part of a new public service ...