Volunteer Sheila Johnstone brings artful approach to teaching sign language

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Volunteer Sheila Johnstone brings artful approach to teaching sign language
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Mastering American Sign Language is much more than memorizing gestures, volunteer...

“I fell into it in the first place because my laboratory at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis overlooked the Central Institute for the Deaf,” Johnstone said. “It looked like hands that were dancing to me, and I fell in love with it.”

She credits two people at CRR, ASL interpreters Kareena Heath and Kathy Adegboye, with placing her on the path to teaching ASL and giving her the skills to do it effectively Demand for Johnstone’s ASL teaching picked up in 2013 when she started teaching it in cooperation with Be an Angel, a north Houston-based nonprofit organization that serves children with multiple disabilities or profound deafness. After her collaboration with Be an Angel was featured in the Houston Chronicle, her class filled, and a waiting list formed.

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