People are born approximately equal. They have two arms, two legs, the ability to think, make inferences, do things. But sometimes there are people who are deprived of various communication opportunities. They need help.
Imagine how in an instant, a world filled with sounds becomes completely silent. The singing of birds, the sound of footsteps of other people, the noise of cars, even just music disappears. In fact, the world did not "sound out", you just became deaf yourself, that is, you lost the ability to hear. Add to this the inability to express your thoughts, that is, dumbness and you will have to turn to a sign language interpreter if you do not speak sign language.
Sign language
It is believed that even before the appearance of verbal (voice) speech, our distant ancestors used just gestures to communicate with each other. Get a fruit, hunt a saber-toothed mammoth together, make long journeys in search of better territory. For all this, it was necessary to somehow explain to fellow tribesmen what to do.
However, with the advent of the ability to verbalize thoughts, sign language has not disappeared. There were always people who were deprived of the opportunity to hear, speak, or at the same time were deaf and dumb. Sign languages improved and acquired their own formalized completeness. So in the middle of the eighteenth century, a French teacher, Laurent Clerk, also suffering from this ailment, created the first school for the deaf in the United States. As a result of this, the so-called "Amslen", the American version of sign language, was gradually formed. Remarkably, it has more French than American.
Sign language translation schools were also opened in Russia, and the first event of this kind took place at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The same French technique was adopted. And gradually it spread throughout the world.
Interestingly, in terms of composition and richness of possibilities, sign languages are no less complex than ordinary ones. It has its own system, grammar, certain rules. Such languages are very specific, figurative, amorphous (when there is a concept, but there is no expression of form, number, case or gender), spatial, and so on.
Sign language interpreter is a difficult profession
There are so many deaf people around the world that no one can give exact numbers. Therefore, the profession of a sign language interpreter is very important. There is an opportunity to study this in special schools or grow up in a deaf family. Interestingly, children raised in a family where both or one parent are deaf can be professional sign language interpreters.
The complexity of the work lies in the fact that each country has its own sign language system. Therefore, it is impossible to understand a foreigner communicating in such a language if it is correct in sign language. There are international signs like "drink", "eat", "sleep", understandable to everyone, but this is not a language as such. In a number of countries, the profession of a sign language interpreter is officially recognized, but in our country this is not yet available.
