David Quinto-Pozos, Ph.D., CI/CT, received his B.S. in Sign Language Interpretation/Religious Studies from the University of New Mexico and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. He has directed the ASL programs at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he is a nationally certified ASL-English interpreter. His primary research topics include: interaction of language and gesture, register and language contact, and signed language disorders. David will join the faculty of the Department of Linguistics at UT-Austin for the fall 2009 semester where he will teach courses on linguistics and bilingualism and perform linguistic research on sign languages.
The is material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number SBE-0541953. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.