'I'm hoping that with more awareness of the deaf refugee experience, interpreter training programs can shed some light on how better to serve those communities, the deaf refugee communities.'
Bhawani saw the word “lato” often when he was living in Goldhap refugee camp. It was a taunt the other children used as they excluded him from soccer games and made fun of him in school. Among adults, “lato” was used to justify discrimination, to deny access, to isolate and exclude.
