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The Missouri woman who helped reshape sign language history
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — "No formal systematic training programs for interpreters have yet been developed," a federal manual declared in 1965. But by then, a woman in Springfield had already spent nearly two decades teaching hearing students sign language and preparing them to interpret for Deaf people.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — "No formal systematic training programs for interpreters have yet been developed," a federal manual declared in 1965. But by then, a woman in Springfield had already spent nearly two decades teaching hearing students sign language and preparing them to interpret for Deaf people.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — "No formal systematic training programs for interpreters have yet been developed," a federal manual declared in 1965. But by then, a woman in Springfield had already spent nearly two decades teaching hearing students sign language and preparing them to interpret for Deaf people.
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