Deaf ASL Teacher

Deaf ASL Teacher I’m truly excited to share my native language with you and, in turn, our community.

05/26/2025
Simple and sweet introduction to deaf kids and sign language.
04/09/2025

Simple and sweet introduction to deaf kids and sign language.

While Elmo sings the ABC song, his friend Mathis signs the alphabets using American Sign Language.

03/26/2025
03/21/2025
Hello! If you are seeing this, it is because you are following Deaf ASL Teacher. That is me. My name is Sandy. I am prof...
02/16/2025

Hello! If you are seeing this, it is because you are following Deaf ASL Teacher. That is me. My name is Sandy. I am profoundly deaf and do not use hearing aids. I currently live and work in the Atlanta, GA metropolitan.

I am at heart a teacher. I started this page several years ago as a way for sign language learners that I meet “in the wild” to find and keep in touch with me if they so desire to.

Eventually, after some debate, both internally and with my amazing family and friends who believed in me more than I did, I taught a couple ASL classes (special shout out to LEAD Homeschool). That led to more ASL classes for hearing learners.

Fast forward to today. I wear a few hats, as we in Early Intervention often say. I retired from teaching informal ASL classes to focus on the current role of my life: helping families of deaf and hard of hearing children from birth to the age of five acquire languages to communicate with deaf people (starting with their child). There’s more to it than that, but that’s the relevant and better-known part. I do this under contract with two states’ Departments of Education, with a branded deaf mentor curriculum. 2025 is my fifth year as a SKI HI Deaf Mentor.

While being a Deaf Mentor, I was also invited to join a bilingual deaf and hard of hearing toddler learning program run by the office of GA state schools. At first, I joined part-time facilitating/leading the toddler program’s Family Support Group classes twice a week. A little bit after, I gratefully and excitedly added on the position of Toddler Twos paraprofessional.

I absolutely love working with our little kiddos and seeing the light in their eyes shine brighter and their little hands, mouths, ears, faces, and bodies dance clearer everyday. These kids are part of all of our future.

I also wear a couple smaller hats; I guess you could call them hair clips. I’m a Shared Reading Project mentor (15 Principles of Reading to/with Deaf Children), a Snapshots guide (Days in the Lives of an enormous variety of Deaf people), and a Deaf Mentor trainer. I’m also a proud honorary aunt to a growing number of D&HH children. I have so many high school graduations to attend starting in about 10-12 years!!

Tl;Dr Hello! This is me! If you’re smiling, you’re in the right place. I hope you don’t, but if you need it, there’s a “Unfollow” button somewhere here that will stop my posts from appearing for you. If you’re not already part of this page and would like to see more of us, please find the “Follow” button!

While we’re here, go ahead and ask questions, share comments, say hello! Where are you from? Who are you? Why are you here?

Yours in sign,
Sandy

02/13/2025
02/13/2025

This article about Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act came across our desk. We are sharing it here because it has a lot of great information.

https://dredf.org/protect-504/

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About Sandy Sego

I'm a Deaf individual who recently discovered the heart-swelling joy and honor of teaching American Sign Language. I’m truly excited to share my native language with you and, in turn, our community. My curriculum breaks down into 15 classes for each of the four levels of ASL. My lessons can immediately be applied in real life after just one class. I teach practical conversational ASL with not only vocabulary but also sentences and stories utilizing proper ASL syntax and grammar, classifiers, facial expressions, body movement, and of course, Deaf culture and history. My students leave my first class grinning and introduce me to their parents and friends immediately using ASL that they just learned. The ripples my students create by in turn teaching their friends and family ASL are visibly spreading and making a remarkable difference in multiple communities. I dream of a world where nearly everyone can sign, improving the quality of interactions, relationships, and life for those of us who rely on ASL to communicate.