Cindy Sanders, BS, MA, ABD, ASLTA Professional Certification Cindy is an Associate Professor at the programs of Faculty/Staff Sign Language Education Program (FSSLEP) and Deaf Studies at National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, NY. She currently holds the American Sign Language Teaching Association Professional certification (ASLTA). She currently serves as a member of the ASLTA Evaluation and Certification Committee and is an editor of the ASLTA newsletter. Cindy has a BS and a MA in Communication at Syracuse University. She is a doctoral student at State University of New York at Albany, and is currently writing her dissertation on the application of speech act theory to American Sign Language. Her research interests are symbolic interaction, symbolic/systematic semiotics, and speech act theory. Email: casnss@rit.edu Phone: (585) 475-6714 V/TTY