Faculty spotlight: Leffler teaches more than communication
Brian Leffler teaches more than American Sign Language. He’s teaching how important and significant communication is to humanity.
“Language and culture are human rights, and we celebrate them,” he said.
Leffler grew up in a family with both deaf and hearing members and learned to communicate by translating between people who speak and people who sign. Now, Leffler, who is deaf, teaches those same skills to others as senior lecturer of ASL in the Mary Frances Early College of Education’s Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education.