{"id":68993,"date":"2023-09-20T08:32:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T05:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=68993"},"modified":"2023-09-20T08:38:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T05:38:05","slug":"fake-sign-language-interpreters-infiltrating-media-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/fake-sign-language-interpreters-infiltrating-media-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake sign language interpreters infiltrating media, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sylvia Katushabe<\/strong><\/p>\n

The National Association <\/span>for the Deaf has said there is an influx <\/span>of fake sign language interpreters in the<\/span>
market. <\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Robert Nkwangu, the executive <\/span>director of the association, yesterday <\/span>said fake sign language interpreters<\/span>
are minting money from unsuspecting <\/span>people.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was speaking during a press brief<\/span>ing at the Uganda Media Centre yes<\/span>terday about the international week <\/span>for the deaf. The week\u2019s activities will <\/span>run from September 17-23 under theme: \u201cCelebrating 50 years of the struggle for the Deaf people\u2019s Human Rights: A Uganda where Deaf people everywhere can sign anywhere\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWe have fake sign language interpreters and also people who are masquerading to be teaching sign language. We need the government to intervene by issuing guidelines for the sign language profession.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

More<\/strong> d<\/strong>etails in today’s copy of the<\/strong><\/em> Daily Monitor<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sylvia Katushabe The National Association for the Deaf has said there is an influx of fake sign language interpreters in themarket. Mr Robert Nkwangu, the executive director of the association, yesterday said fake sign language interpretersare minting money from unsuspecting people. He was speaking during a press briefing at the Uganda Media Centre yesterday about the international week for the deaf. The week\u2019s activities will run from September 17-23 under theme: \u201cCelebrating 50 years of the struggle for the Deaf people\u2019s Human Rights: A Uganda where Deaf people everywhere can sign anywhere\u201d. He said: \u201cWe have fake sign language interpreters and also people who are masquerading to be teaching sign language. We need the government to intervene by issuing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":67804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-normal","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"F j, Y g:i a","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"3","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2105],"class_list":["post-68993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-sign-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}