After learning SIGN LANGUAGE, what kind of jobs can you get? BESIDES being a teacher?

Question

My mom wants to learn sign language and make sime kind of career out of it, like helping little kids or something, but she does not want to be a teacher. What other kinds of jobs can you get??

Answer 1

You can become an interpreter in legal matters or social services:
hospitals, courts, community services.

Answer 2

As other people have said, she can be an ASL/English Interpreter, or a psychologist...really she can apply the sign language skills she has to any occupation. She could be a social worker, lawyer, or doctor, and specialize in working with deaf people.
But first of all, learning ASL (American Sign Language) or any other sign LANGUAGE is NOT easy. It is as difficult as learning any other language. Learning Signed Exact English (SEE) may be slightly easier if your mom is a native speaker of English, but still difficult. It's not something she will pick up in a year or two, especially at her age. So really, before she thinks about careers totally related to signing, she needs to start learning. That said, it's a great language to learn, and I wish her the best.

Answer 3

Number one people who are deaf are NOT dumb at all. ASL or known as American Sign Language is taught around the world. People who are deaf and their families learn this language from a variety of schools, if a child is in a school for the hearing impaired it is taught there. If the parent knows that their child is deaf when they are born they can attend school to learn ASL so that they can teach it to their child as a normal child learns to speak. The rate that a child learns this language depends on the child like any other type of learning. People who are deaf learn this language at a variety of ages as anyone who learns a second language, and people who learn this language are not limited to the hearing impaired many people learn this language to improve themselves. The main thing that you need to understand is that you need to stop using the phrase deaf & dumb, would you like someone to call you that? Hearing impaired or deaf will suffice, just because a person can not hear does no make them dumb. Any person with a disability is not dumb because they are differently abled a matter of fact most of them are more intelligent than so called normal people.

Answer 4

Sign Interpreter in classrooms for the deaf and hard of hearing. There are also positions opening up for the new video relay for D/ HOH. But for more info on what's out there check out the DCARA website.

Answer 5

You can be an interpreter. I work in a mental health facility that treats children - -many who are deaf. We have a staff of interpreters. A good friend of mine work for a video relay services where he interprets phone calls for deaf people.

Answer 6

An interpreter, or maybe a psychologist, that would help out a lot!

Answer 7

Translator - all big conventions, organizations, governments need translators