Webinar: How courts should assess deaf litigants' communication needs
Professor Carla Mats told New Mexico Courts staff that courts should ask deaf people about their preferred communication method and described differences among ASL interpreters, transliterators, captioning and other accommodations.
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Professor Carla Mats, introduced by the New Mexico Courts' ADA coordinator Peggy Cadwell, told webinar participants that the most important first step is to ask the deaf person how they prefer to communicate. "The best piece of advice I could give you anyway is if you have a deaf client... just ask the deaf person what do you want?" she said.
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