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The Puerto Rican Deaf Community Summary
“The Puerto Rican Deaf Community” article is a work done by Holly Williams and Elizabeth Parks. In their work Williams and Parks talk about the problems that the deaf community in Puerto Rico have encountered. These problems are: that there not enough interpreters, violations to the law (ADA), poor education opportunities and discrimination in the workplace. In Puerto Rico, there is a higher Deaf community in the western and central areas where the people communicate with PRSL which is considered an ASL variation. The deaf community located in the North and east area, known as the metropolitan area, communicate with ASL. The article also talks about a channel that is now transmitting their programs with sing language, after representatives
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