When Visual Language Interpreting Inc. closed a five-year, $10 million 2005 interpreting deal with the Social Security Administration for agency hard-of-hearing workers throughout the country, it not only signed one of the largest contracts of its kind to date, it also signaled a serious spike in company growth.

The 20-employee company, which provides individualized, at-office ? or other public event ? sign language interpreting and real-time captioning services to government and private clients, doubled its revenues in 2005 and is on its way to doubling them again in 2006, according to Billy Kendrick, VLI Inc.?s director of operations.