ACCESS: Multiple Avenues for Deaf People

Contributors

201 H. Timothy Bunnell received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the Pennsylvania State University in 1983. From 1983 to 1989, he held the position of research scientist at Gallaudet University. In 1989, he accepted the position of director of the speech research program at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children (AIDHC). He now directs the Nemours Center for Pediatric Auditory and Speech Sciences at AIDHC and participates in the AIDHC cochlear implant program as a research advisor. Maggie Casteel is a late-deafened adult with a cochlear implant and a hearing aid. She is passionate about the use of hearing assistive technology and has been advocating for the accessibility rights of persons with hearing loss for fifteen years. She is a recent graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned an M.S. in rehabilitation counseling and a certification in rehabilitation technology. She is a certified rehabilitation counselor currently working for the Veteran’s Administration Pittsburgh Health Care System. In her role as a vocational rehabilitation specialist, she is able to continue pursuit of her passion for assistive technology while serving disabled veterans. Doreen DeLuca is a nationally certified sign language interpreter in the Philadelphia region. She has a B.S. degree in elementary education and is a certified deaf education teacher. Her professional experience includes work with the Deaf community in educational, theatrical, conference , legal, and Deaf-Blind settings. Doreen has been teaching American Sign Language at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania since 1999. She is a co-editor for the companion book, Signs and Voices, Contributors Contributors_Pgs_201-206.PMD 8/6/2008, 1:21 PM 201 202 Contributors published in 2008 and is the co-author of a storybook for deaf children and their hearing peers, soon to be published by Gallaudet University Press. Jami N. Fisher is the American Sign Language Program coordinator at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a B.A. in English and education and an M.S.Ed. in education, culture, and society with a concentration in deaf cultural issues in education. Her current research interests focus on second-language acquisition methodology for teaching ASL. Christy Hennessey is the program coordinator for Deaf and Hardof -Hearing Services at Independent Resources, Inc., in Wilmington, Delaware. She received an associate’s degree in business from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, N.Y., a B.A. in ASL studies from Gallaudet University, and an M.A. in rehabilitation counseling for the deaf from the University of Tennessee. Christy has worked at Independent Resources since 1998, and she also teaches American Sign Language courses at the University of Pennsylvania. Lisa Herbert is a Black Deaf adult who has worked at the Indiana School for the Deaf since 2005. She has an M.A. in developmental psychology and a specialist degree (Psy.S.) in school psychology with specialization in working with Deaf and hard of hearing children. Her goal is to pursue her Ph.D. in the area of psychology, linguistics, or school administration. Lisa is a former Miss Deaf Florida, and her platform focused on forming bridges between Deaf students in the mainstream and those in residential schools. Gregory J. Hlibok is a senior attorney at the Federal Communications Commission’s Disability Rights Office. He has taken a lead on several crucial rule-making proceedings that resulted in an unprecedented growth in video relay service and Internet protocol relay service. He comes from a second-generation Deaf family and is a Gallaudet University alumnus with a law degree from Hofstra University School of Law. He is known for his leadership role during the Deaf President Now movement at Gallaudet in 1988 and is a leader in Deaf Pride events. Irene W. Leigh, a deaf psychologist who holds a Ph.D., has done high school teaching, psychological assessment, psychotherapy, and mental Contributors_Pgs_201-206.PMD 8/6/2008, 1:21 PM 202 Contributors 203 health administration. She has been a professor in the Gallaudet University Clinical Psychology doctoral program since 1992. In addition to conducting numerous presentations, she has published more than fifty articles and book chapters, edited Psychotherapy with Deaf Clients from Diverse Groups (1999), and co-authored Cochlear Implants in Deaf Children: Ethics and Choices (2002/2005) and Deaf People: Evolving Perspectives from Psychology, Education, and Sociology (2004). She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and associate editor for the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf...