American Sign Language is the primary language of many deaf Americans and Canadians. It is estimated that there are somewhere between 500,000 and 20 million speakers in the U.S. alone.

Faculty:

Sandra Frankel Fontana (Full-time, Riv) email - TTY 328-3784

Diana MacDougall (Full-time, Chair, World Langs _ Riv) email - 222-8832

Jodi Mowrey (Full-time, Riv) email - 222-8429

Rachel Stone (Full-time, Riv) email - TTY 571-6136