Adjunct linguistics professor Nigel Howard, who has become a local celebrity providing American Sign Language interpretation at provincial COVID-19 briefings, will be teaching courses in ASL this fall. These courses are the result of three years of effort by Nigel, assistant professor Strang Burton, and Janet Jamieson, a professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education. You can read more about the process that led to them in this feature on the Language Sciences website.
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