National Technical Institute for the Deaf

Jon Levy has an extensive background in the education of deaf students in the state of California. He currently is principal of the Orange County Department of Education Regional Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program. He has been principal of Deerfield Elementary, Venado Middle School, and University High School, all in Irvine, and, of the Career Adult Program of Costa Mesa. He has been an Educational Administrator of the Deaf for the past 20 years.

He has been a teacher of the deaf in the subjects of Mathematics, English/Language Arts, Computers, and Career Education, and a faculty member in the American Sign Language/Interpreter Training Programs of El Camino College in Torrance and Saddleback College in Mission Viejo. He was selected as the 1997 IMPACT California Deaf/Hard of Hearing Administrator of the Year in 1997.

Mr. Levy is a current member and chair of the California Administrators of the Deaf; member of the CSUN Community Advisory Group and has participated in several workgroups in the area of Deaf Education for the California Department of Education.

He has administrative credentials in educational administration services from the University of California, Irvine, and California State University, Long Beach. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master’s degree in special education, communication handicapped from California State University, Northridge.