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This seminar was a great way to provide a community service and make available a learning opportunity for the Brownsville Police Department that will benefit our community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>TSC Disability Services staff members Frank Slovak, Angelica Ramos and Carol Sandoval volunteered their time to provide the trainin for the 13 officers every Wednesday afternoon in June.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the training, the officers participated in various scenarios where they were required to communicate in sign language. The scenarios included routine traffic stops, public intoxication and shop lifting, among others.<br \/>&#8220;It was an outstanding experience,&#8221; Brownsville Police Officer Laura Gonz\u00e1lez said. &#8220;We were able to learn some basic sign language skills and although we (BPD) are not fluent, the training provided by TSC will help us assist those in our community that are deaf.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been on calls where citizens don&#8217;t speak English, but we can get translators rather quickly to communicate with them,&#8221; she added. &#8220;With the deaf community, we don&#8217;t have that. And it can be frustrating for them, and us. This course will help us use some basic sign language to start the communication process before a certified translator arrives on the scene to assist us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gonz\u00e1lez graduated from TSC&#8217;s Police Academy in spring 2014.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about TSC&#8217;s Disability Services, call (956) 295-3587 or via email at disabilityservices@tsc.edu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Texas Southmost College<\/strong><br \/>Originally established in 1926, Texas Southmost College currently offers the first two years toward a bachelor&#8217;s degree, along with career and technical education leading to certificates and associate degrees, college preparatory studies to prepare students for college-level work, workforce training, and continuing education. Recently selected as a Bright Spot by the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, TSC offers 53 programs of study leading to an associate degree or certificate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; width: 300px; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 80%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/News\/TSC-volunteers-provide-sign-language-course-for-Brownsville-PD.png\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" alt=\"Texas Southmost College Sign Language Interpreter Frank Slovak gives sign language instruction to a group of Brownsville Police Officers and TSC Security Officers in June.\" \/>Texas Southmost College Sign Language Interpreter Frank Slovak gives sign language instruction to a group of Brownsville Police Officers and TSC Security Officers in June.<\/div>\n<p>Eleven Brownsville police and two TSC security officers completed a five-week American Sign Language (ASL) training course on June 29, 2016, that was provided as a free service by Texas Southmost College (TSC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.7 (Yoast SEO v26.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TSC volunteers provide sign language course for Brownsville PD - News and Events<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tsc.edu\/news-and-events\/2016\/07\/21\/tsc-volunteers-provide-sign-language-course-for-brownsville-pd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TSC volunteers provide sign language course for Brownsville PD\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Texas Southmost College Sign Language Interpreter Frank Slovak gives sign language instruction to a group of Brownsville Police Officers and TSC Security Officers in June. 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