William Cruz
William Cruz
ASL On Zoom.com
ASL ON ZOOM
William Cruz LLC
ASL On Zoom.com
What others have to say about William...
Providing Exceptional Classroom Interpreting Services
for the 2024-2025 School Year
Meet William Cruz
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B.S. Psychology
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E.I.P.A. Certification 3.6
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Over 28 years of Interpreting Experience
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Trilingual: ASL, Spanish, English
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Remote Classroom Interpreter
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Published Author
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Husband, Dad and Cartoonist
William works as an Educational Classroom Interpreter which has allowed him to work with students of all ages.
He's skilled in using Art Therapy as a tool to empower students. Art has become instrumental in creating awareness of the challenges the Deaf and Hard of hearing community faces each day.
As a certified professional, he provides interpreting and other support services to students with a hearing impairment who are receiving all or part of their education in a classroom setting along with hearing children,
William's primary function is to facilitate communication among students with hearing impairment, their hearing peers, the classroom teacher, and other personnel in the school system.
Welcome to ASL On Zoom
What others have to say about William...
"William is excellent as an interpreter.
He is always thorough and personable
as he supports the attendees at
my conference each month.
Thanks William for all you do!"
What ASL is:
...a visual language.
With signing, the brain processes linguistic information through the eyes, and facial expressions and body movements play an important part in conveying information. It is possible to sign without using facial expressions or body movements, but doing so may give a mixed message, be confusing, or be misunderstood. It will also look odd or unnatural to native signers.
...not a universal language.
Each country has its own sign language, and regions have dialects, much like the many languages spoken all over the world. If you were to travel to another state and have an opportunity to sign with a person who knows ASL, you may notice that s/he will use some signs differently than you. These signs are known as “regional” signs, and you can think of them as the equivalent of an “accent.” It does not mean that people in your state are signing incorrectly. It is just a normal variation in ASL, and such regional signs add flavor to your understanding of ASL.
...not like Spoken English.
American Sign Language (ASL) is a distinct language with its own rules for pronunciation, word formation, and word order, and it differs from spoken English in many ways:
For example, ASL lacks the verb "to be" and many English-style affixes, such as the suffix "-ed" used to show past tense. Instead, ASL uses words like “yesterday” or “tomorrow” to add tense.
