The Missouri woman who helped reshape sign language history
Lottie Riekehof is being remembered for her pioneering work in teaching sign language and training interpreters in Springfield, Missouri, starting in the 1940s.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — "No formal systematic training programs for interpreters have yet been developed," a federal manual declared in 1965. But by then, a woman in Springfield had already spent nearly two decades teaching hearing students sign language and preparing them to interpret for Deaf people. Her name was Lottie Riekehof. Today, Riekehof is remembered [...]
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