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Marla Berkowitz
Marla Berkowitz is an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter. She is the only ASL Certified Deaf Interpreter in the US state of Ohio. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Ohio, 2020 coronavirus pandemic, she became known because of her interpretation of Ohio governor Mike DeWine's daily press conferences. Early life and education Berkowitz was raised in a Conservative Judaism, Conservative Jewish household in Rockville Centre, New York, Rockville Center on Long Island. She is the only deaf member of her family. She has described herself as growing up "passing as a hearing-identified person". She learned fingerspelling from her hearing mother, who had learned it from Berkowitz's teachers at the Lexington School for the Deaf in Queens. She learned ASL from classmates who were growing up in Deaf families. She has said that some of her teachers were not fluent in ASL and that her classmates would sometimes ask her to interpret. When she was 15, she joined a club for Deaf teens and lear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Sign Language
American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States of America and most of Anglophone Canadians, Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is expressed by employing both manual and nonmanual features. Besides North America, dialects of ASL and ASL-based creole language, creoles are used in many countries around the world, including much of West Africa and parts of Southeast Asia. ASL is also widely learned as a second language, serving as a lingua franca. ASL is most closely related to French Sign Language (LSF). It has been proposed that ASL is a creole language of LSF, although ASL shows features atypical of creole languages, such as agglutination, agglutinative morphology. ASL originated in the early 19th century in the American School for the Deaf (ASD) in West Hartford, Connecticut, from a situation of language contact. Since then, ASL use has been propagated w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
