“There can be many different paths toward achieving an equivalent goal,” says Everett Smith, ’13 Psychology, ’17 MA Communication Studies, who teaches Deaf Education courses for the Special Education Department at #sjsu. “The majority of my students are hearing, and I love that I can use myself as a deaf model for them to work with and learn from, so that they can go out there with a better understanding of what to do if they encounter deaf and hard-of-hearing folks.” Learn more about Smith’s work, as well as paid residency programs that support special education teachers, at the link in bio in the latest edition of #sjsuwsq