I am a hearing person married to a deaf person. In 2015, I remember going to the midwife clinic for our first baby’s appointment. We arranged for our own sign language interpreter because we knew there would be communication barriers, and that no one else would.
When the midwife walked in, we mentioned that we had brought the sign language interpreter to facilitate communicating together. But the midwife escorted the interpreter out of the office, saying the clinic did not have the funding for such services.
