HandDancer Interpreter Services

HandDancer Interpreter Services is located in Whatcom County, Washington near Bellingham, providing American Sign Language interpreting services primarily to the counties in Western Washington. We serve the Deaf and Deaf-Blind community, and the community at large, striving to insure that consumers have access to high quality interpreting services when needed. We pride ourselves on our collective

of ASL/English interpreters who are all nationally certified professionals with 15 to 25 years of experience serving everyone's communication needs in a variety of settings:

* musical and performance interpreting
* K-12 and post-secondary education, vocational/technical to post-graduate
* medical and emergency medical of all types
* legal: attorney-client meetings, courtroom, trials and state hearings, law enforcement
* a wide spectrum of business and industry settings, including IT and computing technology
* conference and platform settings
* federal, state and local governmental agencies
* Video Remote Interpreting
* mental health and social services

HandDancer Interpreter Services is the only local (Whatcom/Skagit/Island/San Juan counties) interpreting agency awarded a contract to provide ASL interpreting for Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) clients in the NW corner. We also hold a contract with Western Washington University for services to students, faculty and staff, as well as contracts with local medical providers, including PeaceHealth St Joseph's Medical Center, Seamar Community Health Center and Interfaith Community Health Center.