If you have concerns or ideas, please feel free to send them in! The signing community in Minnesota will be meeting periodically to address issues of interpreter shortage, insufficient communication between VRS companies and community members, concerns about equal job opportunities for Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Deaf Blind individuals within the VRS industry at all levels of employment, impact of VRS industry on interpreter agencies who are struggling to compete companies that provide higher salaries and benefits, impact of video relay call centers on educational interpreting, new trends from within the video relay industry encouraging the use of online video interpreting in place of live interpreters, and more!
We encourage you to educate yourself as much as possible. We are including links to different sites that will allow you to learn more! The more information you have, the better prepared you are to offer ideas for working together to ensure equal access.
