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DeAnn Sampley DeAnn Sampley is a tenured professor of American Sign Language at Bakersfield College having taught in the ASL Program since 1978. A native of Bakersfield, DeAnn earned an AA degree from Bakersfield College, a BA degree from California State University, Northridge, and an MA degree from California State University, Bakersfield. DeAnn is also a nationally-certified sign language interpreter, having earned a master-level credential through the NAD. She has local, national, and international interpreting experience including platform, educational, religious, performing arts, and television interpreting. In addition to her teaching and interpreting, DeAnn is also a published author. Among her publications are Beginning American Sign Language, Intermediate American Sign Language, and Advanced American Sign Language lab manuals (McGraw-Hill), as well as Lift Up Holy Hands and A Guide to Deaf Ministry videotapes (Deaf Missions). Another of her books, A Guide to Deaf Ministry: Let's Sign Worthy of the Lord (Zonderman) is being revised; the new edition is slated for Spring 2004. Over her many years of teaching, DeAnn has also engaged in a number of notable extracurricular activities. She is the founder and former president of Children to Love International a ministry outreach to Romanian orphans; she co-founded The Stockdale Christian School Deaf Program where she served as a member of the Board of Directors and consultant; she has also consulted and taught sign language in Romania, El Salvador, India, Ceylon, Canada, as well as Texas, Philadelphia, and Hawaii. DeAnn lists as her greatest accomplishment her 25-year marriage. She is also the proud mother of three children, two hearing, college-aged daughters and a Deaf son, adopted from Romania, who attends the California School for the Deaf in Fremont. |
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