When we speak on language access, many people automatically assume there must be a non-English language involved. This is incorrect. For English speakers, the literacy rate for adul...
There are more than 350 languages spoken in the United States other than English, spoken by one in five Americans. 75% of all English speakers in the world are non-native speakers. ...
Language is not just words- it’s also culture. Concerns of access don’t encompass linguistic understanding only, but must also include awareness of the social norms within a community tha...
Non-Verbal, Deaf and DeafBlind Survivors
Throughout our history, the most vulnerable among us have been left out of important violence prevention conversations due to real or perce...
According to the U.S. Census, over 22 million people living in the United States speak a language other than English at home. This means that if non-English speakers all lived in one stat...
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The following resources are a must have for rape crisis centers and advocates to have available in their center to make it easier to understand what a person’s first ...
