The European Commission has established a new project in order to improve communication between people who are hard of hearing or deaf and a wide range of European institutions. The European Parliament has allocated EUR 750,000 for the project.
As any hard of hearing or deaf person would attest to, arranging for a sign language interpreter can be expensive, time consuming and difficult to coordinate. Through the database at World Services, we are able to provide these services but only nationwide in the U.S.A. For Europe to make this significant step toward providing suitable services for the deaf and hard of hearing is admirable.
The project will attempt to produce accommodations for nearly one million deaf or hard of hearing persons of all Member States.
To access the full press release please follow the link:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-511_en.htm?locale=en
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