Ghana: Hearing-Impaired Socially Excluded From Accessing Services-Research

20 September 2019

The hearing-impaired in the country are missing out on social services and business opportunities due to limited access to sign language interpreters, a research by the Ghana National Association of the Deaf (GNAD), has said.

It found out that many public institutions do not have in-house interpreters to assist them while professional interpreters are insufficient, expensive and difficult to reach due to the unavailability of proper database or formal structure that manages them.

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