Don Bangs

Don Bangs is an experienced instructor in American Sign Language (ASL) with a current role at Cabrillo College since January 2013 and an ongoing position as an author for My ASL Book and My ASL Tube since 2011, which features a communicative approach to ASL education. Additionally, Don has been an instructor and former chair of the ASL - Interpreter Education Department at Santa Rosa Junior College since August 1997, overseeing a program that instructs approximately 1,300 Deaf and hearing students annually. Don's educational background includes a Ph.D. in Dramatic Arts with a focus on ASL from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in Radio-TV-Film from the University of Texas, Austin, and an MS in Special Education with a focus on the Deaf from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.