Rehab Center Pays $35,000 to a Deaf Man for not Providing an ALS Interpreter

press release

TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman and the Division on Civil Rights announced today that an Essex County rehabilitation center has paid a former patient $35,000 to resolve allegations the man, who is deaf and communicates primarily through American Sign Language (ASL), was unlawfully denied the services of an ASL interpreter during an extended stay at the facility.