The hearing-impaired have a right to effective communication in hospitals ? but who gets to define what is effective?
Many deaf people and deaf advocates say live interpretation is the ideal means of communicating. Hospitals, however, often resort to an interpretation service such as Deaf-Talk at a fraction of the cost.
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