Jennifer Jones manages the Foundation's Deaf Family Literacy Academy which serves families with a hearing parent and deaf or hard hearing children in Broward and Pinellas Counties. Jennifer has a bachelor's degree in Deaf Education and Elementary Education and a Master's Degree in Curriculum Design with a focus on families with deaf or hard of hearing children. She has worked with deaf children and their families as a parent educator, classroom teacher, and early interventionist for over 15 years. She joined the Volunteer USA team in August 2009, after co-founding and running the non-profit, Alliance for Families with Deaf Children, which received funding from Volunteer USA Foundation, to provide services to families in need.Email Jennifer!
The Deaf Family Literacy Academy strives to facilitate language, literacy, and fully accessible communication among families. Program services include home-visits, child literacy instruction, parent education, and parent literacy instruction in American Sign Language, parent support groups and Parent and Child Together Activities.