Jenelle Rouse

Jenelle Rouse, an independent non-traditional applied linguistics researcher and body-movement dance artist.  She has more than a decade experience of teaching under her belt as a classroom teacher at a bilingual school for the Deaf in Ontario Canada. In addition to Ontario Curriculum, she also taught American Sign Language Curriculum classes for various grades. Jenelle currently brings a BA with honours (Toronto), BEd - a member of the President's List (Oshawa), MA and PhD (London) into her passion of learning, collaborating, and creating. Other than an advocator with a variety of "behind the scene" roles, Jenelle works part-time as an adjunct professor of several post-secondary institutions for at least three years in some provinces to engage candidates in their respective fields. She also works as a co-director of various groundbreaking projects as well as a member of change-making organizations. Although American Sign Language is a main focus, Jenelle is a firm believer that having sign language as a base is of utmost importance for every Deaf child's ability to access to a variety of contextual resources that recognize and promote their sign language acquisition.