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Jusoor's First Conference "Present Challenges and Future Prospects for Sign Language Interpreters"
Representing the President of Yarmouk University, the Vice President of Yarmouk University for Administrative Affairs, Professor Riyad Al-Momani, inaugurated the activities of Jusoor's first conference, "The Present Challenges and Future Prospects for Sign Language Interpreters", which was organized by the First Jordanian Association of Sign Language Interpreters in cooperation with the Deanship of Student Affairs at the university. In his opening speech of the conference, Al-Momani said that Yarmouk University has worked since its establishment to prepare qualified leaders in various fields of science and knowledge and that holding such a conference is an embodiment of the aspects of the university’s openness and support of sustainable development in Jordan. He added that sign language has become one of the important languages in the world and that it is witnessing continuous developments in light of the advances taking place in all sectors as a result of technological and communications developments. He then stated that the university’s deanship of student affairs is keen to involve the deaf in various extracurricular activities and events and to provide those in need with sign language interpreters.
For his part, the President of the First Jordanian Association of Sign Language Interpreters, Osama Tahrawi, talked about the association’s establishment and its mission in consolidating the profession of sign language interpreter and developing it in accordance with international standards in partnership with all relevant institutions inside and outside Jordan. He also reviewed a set of tasks and achievements of the association, starting with providing interpretation services in sign language for people with hearing disabilities (deaf people), spreading the culture of the deaf and teaching sign language to non-native speakers in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, Civil Defense, Public Security, Civil Status, and special education students in universities.
However, the conference program included a series of scientific sessions that discussed major themes about sign language interpreters in Jordan, indicative translation for the deaf, and the role of a sign language interpreter in raising the language inventory of students with hearing disabilities.
