2017 LEAD Together Conference Speakers and Teaching Teams Patrick Graybill
Plenary Speakers
Conference Opening Ceremonies and Reception Speaker
Skills Track Teaching Track Teams Eileen Forestal & Alicia McClurkan Topic: Message coherence
Jonathan Webb
Patricia Lessard & Marlon Kuntze Topic: Spatial structuring/ Discourse mapping Randee Pascall-Speights & Miako Rankin Topic: Depiction in ASL
Patrick Graybill is an internationally renowned, dearly beloved, and consummate actor and director, teacher, poet, storyteller and iconic American Sign Language role model. He is known for his work as an actor with the National Theatre of the Deaf between 1969-1979, and as a consultant, theater director, actor, poet and teacher at Rochester Institute of Technology and its National Technical Institute for the Deaf Performing Arts Program... Detailed bios available at: http://rid.org/rid-2017-nationalconference/speaker-bios/ 4
Heather Harker
Sarah Hafer & Wanda Riddle Topic: ASL Semantics Pauline Ballentine & Tamar Nelson Topic: Achieving semantic equivalence
Carla Shird
Brian Cerney & Anna Cerney Topic: Receptive Fingerspelling
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