SL-to-SL interpreters

[Angus B. Grieve-Smith]

        Since this came up in our discussion of the Amsterdam Manifesto, I
was hoping someone could let us know what the current situation is.  At
TISLR 6 I was dismayed (but not really surprised) to see that talks
delivered in a signed language were typically going through two
interpreters to get to Deaf attendees who didn't know that language.  Are
there many SL-to-SL interpreters?  Which countries have more of them?

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                                -Angus B. Grieve-Smith
                                Linguistics Department
                                The University of New Mexico
                                grvsmth at unm.edu