About this Instructor

LESSON FEES: $50 for a 30-minute lesson $65 for a 45-minute lesson $80 for a 60-minute lesson IN-PERSON LESSON LOCATION: Monrovia SUBJECTS: American Sign Language, Psychology Sharon has a BA in Psychology and a MS in Clinical Psychology, both from Vanguard University. Before she started teaching she worked as a developmental play therapist (using Stanley Greenspan’s Floortime method) and then as an ABA therapist (applied behavioral analysis), working with children with special needs. Sharon has been signing for over 20 years now. She started taking ASL classes her freshman year of high school and continued into college. She has been teaching at EIE Academy since 2014 years now. She also taught ASL full time (and occasionally Psychology and Sociology) at Maranatha High School in Pasadena for six years. She has a 5 year old daughter (who is hearing), Emma, who starting signing at 9 months old! She also has an 2 year old son (also hearing) who starting signing at 6 months old. He currently uses over 30 signs to communicate and talks non stop! At the end of the 2018 school year Sharon decided to resign from full time teaching at Maranatha so she can “stay home” and homeschool her children as well as offer ASL classes during the day at EIE.