ASL Program Professors

Keri Ogrizovich, M.Ed.

ASL Program Coordinator
Courses taught: ASL I, II, III, IV and Understanding Deaf Culture

Keri Ogrizovich has been teaching ASL in the community since 1999 as a side job. It was not until a brief teaching stint in New York City did Keri realized she had the strong desire to return to Vermont and focus on pursuing her passion teaching ASL full time. She is a die-hard UVM-er having completed her Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education and her Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies at UVM. In 2005, Keri was hired at UVM to become the first ASL Program Coordinator. In the spring of 2007, Keri was successfully able to convince the Arts and Science Curriculum Committee at UVM to accept ASL as a foreign language and the motion was passed by faculty members in the fall of 2007, to go in effect in the fall of 2008.

Keri is a member of the American Sign Language Teaching Association (ASLTA) and holds a Provisional Certification. In 2007, Keri became a Certified Deaf Interpreter (CDI) by the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID). On a personal note, Keri resides in Fairfax with her husband, Nick (who works on campus at ACCESS), their two sons, and two dogs. She enjoys reading books, being outdoors, and traveling internationally.

S. Lynn Bearman

Courses taught: ASL I

S. Lynn Bearman has been teaching ASL at UVM since 1994. For over 20 years she has taught various levels of ASL at the other accredited institutions: Saint Michael's College, Trinity College, Community College of Vermont, and Middlebury College. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a minor in Mechanical Engineering from Johnson State College. Prior to her career as an ASL Instructor, Lynn worked as a Facilities Engineer with IBM for 25 years before retiring in 1993.

Lynn is a member of the American Sign Language Teaching Association (ASLTA) and holds a Professional Certification. She has a Superior rating on the Sign Communication Proficiency Interview (SCPI). Other than teaching ASL, Lynn has held numerous workshops/classes on linguistics, language acquisition, sign language teaching, and Deaf Culture. Lynn resides in Shelburne, Vermont, with her husband, and has two grown sons in New York City and Boston. She enjoys gardening, cooking, knitting, crafting, traveling and camping in her spare time.

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