American Sign Language
Rank/Title: Instructor
Campus: Redwood
Office: AD 143
Phone: 866-715-1885
Email: Duane.Kinner@slcc.edu
Education: BS Gallaudet University, 1999
Duane Kinner earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems in 1999 from Gallaudet University. He is currently pursuing ASLTA certification. He taught as an ASL lab tutor and adjunct ASL instructor at SLCC before becoming a full-time instructor in 2002. Duane is a trainer for the Utah Interpreter Program. He is also a language mentor for interpreters at Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind Duane has the rare distinction of being raised in a Deaf family and having two Deaf children.
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Rank/Title: Assistant Professor
Campus: Redwood
Office: AD 147
Phone: 801-957-4642
Email: Connie.Spanton-Jex@slcc.edu
Education: BS Utah State University, 1988 MS Western Maryland College, 2002
Interpreter Certification: RID CI/CT
Connie has been the ASL/Interpreting department coordinator since August 2003. She joined SLCC’s full-time faculty in August 2002. She has been nationally certified interpreter since 1991 through the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf and holds both Certifications of Interpreting (CI) and Transliterating (CT). She currently serves as the Local Testing Administrator/Coordinator for RID’s certification testing Supersite located in Salt Lake City in a collaborative effort with UIP and SLCC.
Prior to coming to Salt Lake Community College, Connie worked for 10+ years in Washington D.C. as a certified interpreter, working in a variety of situations and settings. Her favorite setting/situation was theatrical interpreting and she interpreted over 50+ plays while in Washington D.C. metro area.
Connie possesses a Master of Science degree from Western Maryland College (2002) in Bi-lingual Bi-Cultural Deaf Education, is a member of Utah RID, Conference of Interpreter Trainers (CIT), ASLTA and is the mother of 4 children, including a Deaf son.
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Rank/Title: Instructor /Lab Instructor
Campus: Redwood
Office: AD 147
Phone:
Email: Emily.Beech@slcc.edu
Education M.Ed Utah State University, 2008, BS Utah State University, 1999, AA Salt Lake Community College, 2005
Interpreter Certification Utah Intermediate, NIC Certified
Emily earned an Associate of Arts degree in ASL/Interpreting (SLCC), and additionally,
possesses a B.S. degree in Education with minor in Deaf Education and a Master's degree in Educational Technology from Utah State University. Her teaching experience includes four
year classroom teaching in the Jordan School District, 1999 to 2003, and as an ITP lab tutor & instructor, 2004 to present, at Salt Lake Community College. Emily interprets at SLCC and in the community.
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Rank/Title: Instructor
Campus: Redwood
Office:
Phone:
Email: Holly.Nelson@slcc.edu