Have you read some closed captioning? I think sign language translators are 100% necessary. Not that everyone needs to learn sign language but it's still helpful to have some people who do.

I've also never met someone who can sign "just because" - the ones I know leaned it to aid a relative or loved one, or in my aunt's case to teach disabled children in her very rural town.

Have you read some closed captioning? I think sign language translators are 100% necessary. Not that everyone needs to learn sign language but it's still helpful to have some people who do.