This is an interview with Bracken Gott. He is a Ph.D student at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in Chicago. He learned American Sign Language, or ASL, when he was an undergrad at Indiana University. He conducted individual and group therapy sessions with deaf and hard of hearing people at the Anixter Center of Addiction Recovery of the Deaf in Chicago for about a year and a half.
He discusses communication differences between deaf and hearing people, and the role adaptive technology plays in therapy.
Full transcript of the interview after the jump.
