"Hello. I am a hard of hearing person that reads lips, uses hearing aids, and speaks well. I have many years of experience tutoring in English and American Sign Language. I worked with international deaf students at Gallaudet University, and to deaf students in Rochester Institute of Technology in mastering both languages.

I am friendly, and patient. I love meeting new people with a passion to learn a new language and to get better at a subject that appropriately challenges them.

I have gone to Gallaudet University which is a large deaf university with an even larger deaf community that primary uses American Sign Language. I've grown up using sign language in k-12 school, colleges and consider myself to be hard of hearing. I've also spent several years in a different deaf communities in different states such as New York, Massachusetts, Washington D.C., and California. Each regions has their own accent or traits in sign language, just like spoken English, and this experience has given me unique perspective as an ASL tutor being well versed in multiple accents/traits.

I am hard of hearing myself, and uses many skills such as lip reading, speaking, sign language, and written communications. The platform for tutoring will have video chat, whiteboard, and text chat to communicate during the lessons.

I love to tutor, and am willing to adjust to different levels of learning preferences. I can make it fun, or structured. I am very flexible in how the peer may want to learn the materials, and very open to feedback to restructure our lessons together." less...