non-English speakers

Emergency managers are seeking to lessen language barriers for the thousands of county residents who don’t speak English well or cannot speak it at all.

Access to information in languages other than English is protected by various policies. But researchers say that as rural America grows more diverse, people not proficient in the language face added barriers.

Thousands of non-English-speaking Floridians face a difficult barrier when they go to the state’s web page to sign up for Medicaid and and other programs,…