"From what I understand, (the number of deaf or hard of hearing victims of
abuse) could be as much as one in two women."
Baker says she recently realized that in all of her years with the domestic violence division, she never called in a sign language interpreter.
"That tells me not that we're lucky that there's no deaf people being abused,Read more here or see a video
but quite the opposite: that these people are not getting our services, and that
was a concern to me.”
