Tag Archives: sign language

Know Your Employment Rights (in ASL)

The Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center has created six “know your rights” videos in American Sign Language (ASL) with English captioning.  These videos, the first of their kind in the nation, provide critical legal information on a variety of employment issues in a format that’s accessible to deaf and hard of hearing workers.  The video titles are: Discrimination in the Workplace …

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Student Awards

AL NIES “FURTHER” AWARD The Al Nies “Further” award is sponsored by Ainsley Nies, a CTP graduate of Programming Class 4. In honor and in memory of her husband, Al Nies, this annual award is given to a programming class graduate. The award was inaugurated at the Class 40 graduation. This award is determined by the CTP instructors, and is …

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Sorenson Video Phone Service

CTP has a video phone on site. The Sorenson VP 200 allows the CTP students who are Deaf to make phone calls using their native sign language. The video phone is connected to a television and allows callers who are Deaf to see each other and converse in sign language. If a caller who is Deaf and a hearing caller …

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