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Published: September 22, 2007
Agency issues news release in sign language
By Chad Previch
The state Rehabilitation Services Department released its first video press release in American Sign Language on Friday. It was the first press release issued by a state agency in sign language.

The department's Web site did not accommodate everyone who considered themselves deaf, said Jody Harlan , department spokeswoman.

"It would be like me reading it in Spanish on somebody else's Web site,” Harlan said.

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