Joseph Guss

Joseph Guss

My name is Joseph M. Guss, Jr. I am a retired Darkroom Technician for more than 40 years. (I still carry a camera with me.) Originally, I was born in New Orleans, Louisiana during the segregation time, and became deaf at the age of five caused to spinal meningitis and mild autism. I attended three different deaf Schools, Louisiana State School for the Deaf Negro on the Southern University campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, then moved to New York with my Family in the 60s, Junior High 47 School in Manhattan (oral school), and graduated New York School for the Deaf in White Plains, New York. I studied photography at the Germain School of Photography and the School of Visual Arts. I love going to museums and performance shows.

I taught American Sign Language classes at the New York Society for the Deaf for five years under Mary Beth Miller as the ASL Coordinator. I have a great deal of patience in teaching ASL to beginning students. My goal is to teach new students and help to improve their receptive skills and understand the peripheral vision of ASL. I am honored and inspired to work here at SLC teaching ASL to parents, autistic children and seniors.

Cover website photo credit: Joseph Guss