Angela Ashworth
Angela graduated from the University of Florida with her B.A. in Communication Sciences & Disorders (Speech Language Pathology & Audiology). While at UF, Angela was a member of the Signing Gators Club and volunteered countless hours working with deaf, hard of hearing and special needs children and adults. She also took ASL I, II, III, and IV while in college as well as several classes after graduation. Angela is fluent in American Sign Language (ASL) and holds a proficiency rating of Advanced Plus on the Sign Language Proficiency Interview Rating Scale (SLPI), which is a scale for rating sign language communication skills that is based on highly skilled, knowledgeable native-like signers. In 2006, Angela moved to Georgia and began working at The Georgia School for the Deaf, GSD. She worked at GSD from 2007 to 2017 and held many positions there including Accountant, Assistant to the Principal, Office Manager, Speech Language Pathologist, Speech Language Pathologist Aide, ASL Interpreter and Fund Raising Coordinator. She helped to establish the Athletic Booster Club and the Mascot program as well. She also had the unique opportunity to attend an intense ASL Immersion Course at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC., the world’s only university in which all programs and services are specifically designed to accommodate deaf and hard of hearing students. Angela currently teachers ASL classes both online and in person. She is currently a contracted teacher for several charter and home schools in the USA and teaches ASL to students working on obtaining their foreign language requirements for graduation. She is an active volunteer at local schools, daycare centers, senior centers and community theaters, teaching ASL and deaf awareness and acceptance, as well as signs, to incorporate into theatrical performances to students, teachers and members of the community. Angela is a technical advisor and ASL tutor for independent entertainment companies and works closely with actors and musicians to learn and correctly sign their lines in ASL for both on screen and live performances. in 2022, Angela was contracted to teach ASL with the Northern Lights Santa Academy, the largest Santa Claus school in the Southeast which provides quality education to all Santas, Mrs. Clauses and Elves of the Christmas community. For the past 17 years, Angela has offered private tutoring to deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing individuals in both English and ASL. Angela is the founder and C.E.O. of both I Love Learning ASL and Crest Pointe Entertainment Group, LLC. which specializes in the booking, management and promotions of live music. Angela resides in Villa Rica, GA with her husband, and together they are the real life "Brady Bunch," having six children between the two of them.
Angela graduated from the University of Florida with her B.A. in Communication Sciences & Disorders (Speech Language Pathology & Audiology). While at UF, Angela was a member of the Signing Gators Club and volunteered countless hours working with deaf, hard of hearing and special needs children and adults. She also took ASL I, II, III, and IV while in college as well as several classes after graduation. Angela is fluent in American Sign Language (ASL) and holds a proficiency rating of Advanced Plus on the Sign Language Proficiency Interview Rating Scale (SLPI), which is a scale for rating sign language communication skills that is based on highly skilled, knowledgeable native-like signers. In 2006, Angela moved to Georgia and began working at The Georgia School for the Deaf, GSD. She worked at GSD from 2007 to 2017 and held many positions there including Accountant, Assistant to the Principal, Office Manager, Speech Language Pathologist, Speech Language Pathologist Aide, ASL Interpreter and Fund Raising Coordinator. She helped to establish the Athletic Booster Club and the Mascot program as well. She also had the unique opportunity to attend an intense ASL Immersion Course at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC., the world’s only university in which all programs and services are specifically designed to accommodate deaf and hard of hearing students. Angela currently teachers ASL classes both online and in person. She is currently a contracted teacher for several charter and home schools in the USA and teaches ASL to students working on obtaining their foreign language requirements for graduation. She is an active volunteer at local schools, daycare centers, senior centers and community theaters, teaching ASL and deaf awareness and acceptance, as well as signs, to incorporate into theatrical performances to students, teachers and members of the community. Angela is a technical advisor and ASL tutor for independent entertainment companies and works closely with actors and musicians to learn and correctly sign their lines in ASL for both on screen and live performances. in 2022, Angela was contracted to teach ASL with the Northern Lights Santa Academy, the largest Santa Claus school in the Southeast which provides quality education to all Santas, Mrs. Clauses and Elves of the Christmas community. For the past 17 years, Angela has offered private tutoring to deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing individuals in both English and ASL. Angela is the founder and C.E.O. of both I Love Learning ASL and Crest Pointe Entertainment Group, LLC. which specializes in the booking, management and promotions of live music. Angela resides in Villa Rica, GA with her husband, and together they are the real life "Brady Bunch," having six children between the two of them.
Emma Foster
Emma Foster has had a passion for American Sign Language (ASL) and the Deaf community since she was 13 years old. Emma graduated from Gardner-Webb University (GWU) with her B.A. in American Sign Language with a minor in Interpreting and Psychology. She also has a Masters in Social Work. Emma worked as an ASL lab TA (teacher’s assistant) and volunteered as a student interpreter with Gardner-Webb University. She completed ASL and Interpreting full time internships with a Deaf Church in Tennessee in 2017 where she worked as a camp counselor with Deaf counselors and Deaf children. Emma has also taught ASL courses for children and families within her community and provides private ASL one-on-one tutoring. She currently works as a full-time professional Educational Interpreter with the local public school system. In fact, this will be her third year! Emma has taken the Sign Language Proficiency Interview Assessment (SLPI) and was rated as Superior. (The Superior rating is ranked as native-like.) Emma Foster absolutely loves working with the Deaf community and teaching others ASL. She also has a St. Bernard mix whom she adores!
Emma Foster has had a passion for American Sign Language (ASL) and the Deaf community since she was 13 years old. Emma graduated from Gardner-Webb University (GWU) with her B.A. in American Sign Language with a minor in Interpreting and Psychology. She also has a Masters in Social Work. Emma worked as an ASL lab TA (teacher’s assistant) and volunteered as a student interpreter with Gardner-Webb University. She completed ASL and Interpreting full time internships with a Deaf Church in Tennessee in 2017 where she worked as a camp counselor with Deaf counselors and Deaf children. Emma has also taught ASL courses for children and families within her community and provides private ASL one-on-one tutoring. She currently works as a full-time professional Educational Interpreter with the local public school system. In fact, this will be her third year! Emma has taken the Sign Language Proficiency Interview Assessment (SLPI) and was rated as Superior. (The Superior rating is ranked as native-like.) Emma Foster absolutely loves working with the Deaf community and teaching others ASL. She also has a St. Bernard mix whom she adores!
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Stephanie Parsons
Stephanie is a Behavior Analyst living in upstate New York, having moved to the Hudson Valley after seven years in New York City. While living in NYC, Stephanie worked with the Deaf community in various capacities including an internship with the Deaf adult population of the Federation Employment and Guidance Service (FEGS), a stage manager for the Off Off Broadway production of Sign-arella, and a job coach for Deaf individuals at Education and Employment Consulting. She currently works with adults diagnosed with intellectual, developmental, and medical disabilities and teaches classes for individuals training to be Registered Behavior Technicians. Stephanie remains a perpetual student, both in the ASL language and in life, and hopes to learn as much or more from her students as they learn from her. |
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Tamara Stephens
Tamara has been teaching and communicating with basic ASL for the past 15 years and holds an Associates of Arts degree in American Sign Language from Georgia State University. Tamara has used sign language as a communication tool with her own children, as well as the children she taught in her special needs and general education classrooms while working in a local public school system. Tamara became a Signing Time Instructor in 2016 and enjoys helping parents and children learn to communicate in ASL. She is currently teaching classes in Paulding County and online. Abbey Dick Abbey is an English Department Curriculum Coordinator in Massachusetts. She taught high school and middle school English Language Arts before becoming an administrator and has worked in public education for twenty years. Abbey is hard of hearing and has been studying ASL for three years. She works with middle school and high school ASL Club in her school district and teaches beginner’s ASL classes for adults at the local community education center. Abbey enjoys building her ASL proficiency and reading about Deaf culture. |
In Loving Memory of Julia Flint
Julia was involved with ASL for over 20 years, both as a student of the language, and as a facilitator in our ASL practice sessions and our fundamental/beginner courses. She was also the original webmaster for this website and was the true inspiration for I Love Learning ASL to go completely online when Covid hit in early 2020. She didn't want to see our hard work take a back seat when the world shut down so she used her innovated ways of thinking to help Angela launch I Love Learning ASL and form it into what it is today. She collaborated with her Deaf teacher (in California) on a classroom textbook ("Conversational Signing"), and continued to practice ASL whenever possible. Pre-Covid she ran our our adult- level ASL Club in person in Douglasville, GA and facilitated our original online practice sessions, where students practice fingerspelling, sign receptivity, conversational phrases, and other components of the language. Julia was an actress as well as an ASL teacher and was recently seen in the television shows, "The Resident" and "The Act." She absolutely loved her "fur kids" as she fondly referred to them and was a friend to anyone that ever met her. Julia firmly believed that all people that are deaf and hard of hearing deserve equal access and she made it a mission to reaching and teaching as many people as she could to help meet her goal. Julia passed away peacefully on June 8, 2022 after a 2 year battle with cancer. We at I Love Learning ASL will forever be grateful for her dedication and love to American Sign Language and for the friendships we all had with her. She will always be remembered and held close in our hearts. When we lift our hands to sign and teach others we will continue to carry on Julia's mission of teaching others in the effort for all people of all hearing abilities to have equal access. RIP Julia - we will never forget you.
Julia was involved with ASL for over 20 years, both as a student of the language, and as a facilitator in our ASL practice sessions and our fundamental/beginner courses. She was also the original webmaster for this website and was the true inspiration for I Love Learning ASL to go completely online when Covid hit in early 2020. She didn't want to see our hard work take a back seat when the world shut down so she used her innovated ways of thinking to help Angela launch I Love Learning ASL and form it into what it is today. She collaborated with her Deaf teacher (in California) on a classroom textbook ("Conversational Signing"), and continued to practice ASL whenever possible. Pre-Covid she ran our our adult- level ASL Club in person in Douglasville, GA and facilitated our original online practice sessions, where students practice fingerspelling, sign receptivity, conversational phrases, and other components of the language. Julia was an actress as well as an ASL teacher and was recently seen in the television shows, "The Resident" and "The Act." She absolutely loved her "fur kids" as she fondly referred to them and was a friend to anyone that ever met her. Julia firmly believed that all people that are deaf and hard of hearing deserve equal access and she made it a mission to reaching and teaching as many people as she could to help meet her goal. Julia passed away peacefully on June 8, 2022 after a 2 year battle with cancer. We at I Love Learning ASL will forever be grateful for her dedication and love to American Sign Language and for the friendships we all had with her. She will always be remembered and held close in our hearts. When we lift our hands to sign and teach others we will continue to carry on Julia's mission of teaching others in the effort for all people of all hearing abilities to have equal access. RIP Julia - we will never forget you.
