American Sign Language Organization
- Location: Zoom
- Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
ASLO members will be emailed a Zoom link the day of the meeting. Please check the email account you used when signing up to be an ASLO member.
- Location: Zoom
- Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Registration Required
Please register and manage your registration at this registration link.
*Registration opens a week and a day (8 days) before the event. Registration closes 24 hours before the event.
- Location: Zoom
- Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Join us March 16, 2021 at 7pm to hear from Sylvya Boyd, an RID Certified Deaf interpreter (CDI), as she gives us an "inside" look into the life of a Deaf interpreter.
Students, please be sure to register for the event using our ASL Event Registration page (registration closes March 15 at 7pm); non-students, please contact aslo@wku.edu. The event's Zoom information and links will be sent out the day of the event for those who register.
Sylvya Boyd
Sylvya Boyd has been profoundly deaf since she was three weeks old. She attended pre-school (John Tracy Clinic) in Los Angeles, California. Her mother realized that Sylvya was not learning academically since the school was focused on her speech skills for a period of time. So, her mom decided to take her out of that school and placed her in the California School for the Deaf in Riverside, California where she learned ASL by interacting with deaf peers. She fell in love with that school was her happy second home.
While growing up, Sylvya also went to two other residential schools in Frederick, Maryland and Tucson, Arizona. After her graduation from Arizona School for the Deaf, she enrolled at Gallaudet University, majoring in Sociology-Social Work.
After graduating from Gallaudet College, Sylvya worked a lot with deaf clients as a job vendor with vocational rehabilitation. She also taught American Sign Language classes in community colleges for more than 30 years in New York, Georgia, Iowa, and Tennessee. Sylvya even taught ASL classes at WKU until she retired in 2017. She received the American Sign Language Teachers Association (ASLTA) certification in December 2014. Currently, Sylvya is working part-time as a Deaf interpreter in Nashville and Kentucky.
- Location: Zoom
- Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Registration Required
Please register and manage your registration at this registration link.
*Registration opens a week and a day (8 days) before the event. Registration closes 24 hours before the event.
- Location: Zoom
- Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Join us March 30, 2021 at 7pm to hear from Kinya Embry, a Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) speech-language pathologist (SLP) that specializes in working with Deaf kids.
Students, please be sure to register for the event using our ASL Event Registration page (registration closes March 29 at 7pm); non-students, please contact aslo@wku.edu. The event's Zoom information and links will be sent out the day of the event for those who register.
Kinya Embry
Kinya Embry, MS, CCC-SLP is a speech-language pathologist who received both her bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders with a minor in American Sign Language and her master's in Speech-Language Pathology from Western Kentucky University. She worked at a school for the Deaf for the past two years and is now a PhD candidate, focusing on language development in Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) kids and the impact of ASL as a first language.
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