As long as people are progressing, we'll take them wherever they want to go.

People take the classes because of the deaf school and the deaf community, so they can communicate with friends and classmates. ... We've had everyone from nurses and other medical professionals to parents of deaf children. I've even had car salesmen.

English is an auditory language. ASL is a conceptual and visual language. It's not something that can be learned right away.

I learned mainly from deaf friends, then started going to any class I could find. I wanted to learn to communicate, not hurt.

We have had as many as 97 and as few as 27. I'm always prepared with extra teachers because I never know.

People should know that this program exists and collecting old eyeglasses is so easy. They can even be drugstore reading glasses.