Posted on October 20, 2015 by Dareh Gregorian in New York Daily News New York Daily News, By Dareh Gregorian The city’s Department of Homeless Services agreed Tuesday to provide sign language interpreters to deaf people living in homeless shelters — ending a pair of lawsuits that charged the city was discriminating against the hearing-impaired. The settlement rose out of a lawsuit filed by Grace Ihetu, who said she was improperly placed in a shelter for single adults and kept away from her children for three months because she couldn’t understand questions that were being posed to her.
