About Us

Sign Language USA was founded in 1984 by former Gallaudet professor Dr. Richard F. Rosen in an effort to support the sizeable deaf and hard of hearing population in the Washington, D.C metro region by providing high quality American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters.

Dr. Rosen quickly learned that it was not only the deaf and hard of hearing community that was lacking in accessible language services and so he launched a second company, Foreign Language USA, to provide spoken language interpreters for the region’s thousands of limited English speaking community members.

Today, both companies merged as Sign Language USA known by its acronym “SLUSA” (Slewsah). This is to avoid confusion that it only provides American Sign Language when in reality, SLUSA provides over 300 languages. SLUSA is a full service language interpretation and translation agency.

As technology and the availability of high speed internet have dramatically improved through the years, SLUSA developed its on-demand remote interpreting service (VRI/OPI) which utilizes video and audio conferencing technology to rapidly route users to an interpreter in their required language within seconds using any computer, laptop, smart mobile device, or any ordinary telephone.

With the addition of text services such as written/document translation between English and over 150 foreign languages (and vice versa) as well as real-time captioning services, SLUSA has become a full service language interpretation and translation agency.