About the Author:
Darline Clark Gunsauls was born-deaf into an all Deaf family. Fluent in both American Sign Language (ASL) and English, her first, native language is ASL. English is her second language. Darline grew up with her brother, Kevin Clark, in the Missouri School for the Deaf, a residential school in Fulton, Missouri. Darline then attended Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, graduating with a bachelor s degree in Child Development in 1995. Learning SignWriting was easy for Darline. Reading and writing her native language, ASL, seemed natural . Darline became the director of the DAC , the Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting, in 1996, working together with Valerie Sutton. In June of that year, Darline traveled to Bluefields, Nicaragua, with James Shepard-Kegl. There she taught Deaf students how to read and write Nicaraguan Sign Language in SignWriting. In 1997, Darline worked at UCSD, the University of California at San Diego, in two capacities: ASL Research Assistant to Dr. Carol Padden, in the Research Program in Language & Literacy and ASL Instructor in the Language Linguistics Program. In 1998, Darline starred in the SignWriting Children s Stories Video, telling the stories of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Goldilocks, and Snow White in American Sign Language. Darline s beautiful ASL storytelling is viewed around the world. Each story has been transcribed into SignWriting. Darline also wrote stories directly in ASL. This storybook is one of them! In 2009, Darline is professor of American Sign Language and director of the American Sign Language Lab at American River College (ARC) in Sacramento, California.
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