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Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 8B-5

  • Deaf person: means a person whose hearing impairment is so significant that the individual is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification. See North Carolina General Statutes 8B-1

If a communication made by the deaf person through an interpreter is privileged, the privilege extends also to the interpreter. (1981, c. 937, s. 1.)