Shannon Schmidhammer
American Sign Language (ASL)
Hello! 🤟
I was born deaf and grew up in Columbus, Ohio. I have been signing since I was 7 (I started Oral program then transferred to PSE - Pidgin Sign Language). I was mainstreamed: Reading and Writing were my favorite subjects. Then I went to Model Secondary School for the Deaf for my senior year, then I started to immerse in ASL within the Deaf community.
I attended the National Technical Institute for the Deaf/Rochester Institute of Technology) in Rochester, New York, followed by Gallaudet University for my BS and University of North Florida for my Masters of Education. I had been a substitute teacher for the Deaf and Hard of hearing and ASL classes for years. I was an adjunct professor at Scottsdale and Gilbert/Chandler community colleges for 2 years.
In my spare time, I enjoy traveling and hope to travel to Greece, Italy and Ireland one day.