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Communication Technology Can Help Students and Recent Graduates in Job Search

“Thousands of high school seniors will graduate this spring and begin hunting for employment. Communications technology can empower deaf graduates to effectively compete with their hearing counterparts.”

The Endeavor, Winter 2010 Read Full Article

Demand high for skilled American Sign Language interpreters

“Thirty years ago, it was futuristic to think a deaf or hearing impaired person could communicate by standard telephone. With Video Relay Service, or VRS, that space-age fantasy is reality.”

Kathy Stephenson, The Salt Lake Tribune, November 7, 2009 Read Full Article

Video relay lets hearing-impaired speak for themselves on phone

“Salt Lake City’s Sorenson Communications, the leading VRS provider in the country with more than 100 relay centers nationwide, held a conference Saturday about the history and future of ASL interpreting.”

Sara Lenz, Deseret New, November 7, 2009 Read Full Article

Video Relay Services Empower Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children to Communicate

“Videophones and Video Relay Service (VRS) open a world of communication for deaf and hard-of-hearing children who use American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate and for their families by providing a skilled sign language interpreter to relay conversations between deaf and hearing individuals in two different locations. Sorenson Communications, the leading VRS provider in the U.S., supplies videophones and VRS to its customers at no charge.”

The Endeavor, Fall 2009 Read Full Article

Channel Three’s Jim Carmack introduces us to a company that’s helping reach out and sign to someone

“Sorenson Communications has more than 100 interpreting centers across the country, and one of them is right here in downtown Pensacola.”

WEAR Channel 3 TV, August 26, 2009

ASL English Interpreting Program awarded $10,000 from Sorenson

“Sorenson Communications awarded Western’s American Sign Language (ASL) English Interpreting Program (EIP) a $10,000 Award of Excellence at the 2008 Conference for Interpreter Trainers, which took place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Oct. 22-25.”

Western Oregon Journal, June 3, 2009 Read Full Article

CHRIS ARDIS: STC’s deaf interpreter program is music to my ears

“PAH! In Deaf culture, this expression indicates that “finally” something significant has occurred. It is the perfect way to describe how many people in the Rio Grande Valley feel about South Texas College’s new Interpreter Training Program.”

Chris Ardis, The Monitor, May 12th 2009 Read Full Article

BIDMC Installs Sorenson Communications Videophone for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Patients

“Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has installed a Sorenson videophone - a device that enables Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing callers to conduct conversations through a video relay system using American Sign Language (ASL). The service allows patients to call other Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing people directly, or a non-Deaf person using an online qualified ASL interpreter. BIDMC is one of the first hospitals in the Northeast with a videophone system in a central, public lobby.”

Zineb Marchoudi, Newsletter of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center—
A Teaching Hospital of Harvard Medical School, April 7, 2009 Read Full Article

Phone allows long-distance signing

“Iowa State installed its first Sorenson Videophone last week, a technology that allows video communication among deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing individuals.”

Kim Norvell, Iowa State Daily, March 2, 2009 Read Full Article

Community Award for Sorenson VRS

"Last month, at the GKC-ADARA chapter holiday banquet, GKC-ADARA presented Sorenson Communications with its outstanding community award. The honor recognized Sorenson Communications for providing Video Relay Service (VRS) for people in the Kansas City area. The award also recognized Sorenson Communications for founding intensive the Interpreter Training Series and for the establishment of VRS Interpreting Centers throughout the county."

Leonard Hall, Olathe News, January 7, 2009 Read Full Article