Our stories: The soul of sign language interpreting
by Marianne Decher
Category: Deaf

Sign language interpreting is both an art and a science with interpreters finding themselves uniquely between two worlds; a deaf world in which most of them did not grow up as "natives", and a hearing world which often has not encountered interpreters and is unfamiliar with the profession. Aside from the myriad of personal histories an skills that interpreters collectively bring to their work, they are, above all, people working with people. Our Stories; the Soul of Sign Language Interpreting is the what makes interpreting both challenging and rewarding.