Community Education Faculty Details

Gerilee Gustason Title: Sign Language Department/Discipline: Language & Culture Email Address: gerileeg@aol.com Phone Number: 360-683-2878 TDD ONLY Credentials Ph.D. M.A. Education & Supervision M.A. Education of the Deaf, M.A. English BIOGRAPHY Deafened at age 5; has taught deaf and hearing students in middle and high school and in college. She headed the program at San Jose State University (CA) to prepare teachers of deaf and hard of hearing youth, is a former president of the national Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, and has taught deaf students at the middle school, high school, and college levels. She has done workshops on sign language both nationally and internationally. She adopted and raised a deaf child. Policies Practice, practice, practice! Classes Sign Language I C-L 020, Sign Language II C-L 021, Storytelling in Sign Language C-L 025