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A video relay service (VRS), also sometimes known as a video interpreting service (VIS), is a video telecommunication service that allows deaf, hard-of-hearing and speech-impaired (D-HOH-SI) individuals to communicate over video telephones and similar technologies with hearing people in real-time, via a sign language interpreter.

American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of anglophone Canada.

Besides North America, dialects of ASL and ASL-based creoles are used in many countries around the world, including much of West Africa and parts of Southeast Asia.

ASL is also widely learned as a second language, serving as a lingua franca.

ASL is most closely related to French Sign Language (LSF).

It has been proposed that ASL is a creole language of LSF, although ASL shows features atypical of creole languages, such as agglutinative morphology.

Hearing loss, also known as hearing impairment, is a partial or total inability to hear.

A deaf person has little to no hearing.

Hearing loss may occur in one or both ears.

In children hearing problems can affect the ability to learn spoken language and in adults it can cause work related difficulties.

In some people, particularly older people, hearing loss can result in loneliness.

Hearing loss can be temporary or permanent.

Interpretation or interpreting is oral translation of speech or sign from a language into another.

Translation studies is the systematic study of the theory, description and application of interpretation and translation.

Technology ("science of craft", from Greek, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and) is the collection of techniques, skills, s and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation.

Technology can be the knowledge of techniques, processes, and the like, or it can be embedded in machines which can be operated without detailed knowledge of their workings.