Fluency Strategies for Students who are DHH
Welcome to RMTC-DHH's October 2019 Teacher Spotlight. We are proud to introduce Victoria "Tory" Pope from Orange County Public Schools at Lake Sybelia Elementary School. The spotlight video theme for October 2019 is fluency! Learn more about how Tory uses evidence-based literacy interventions to improve her students' fluency.
Tory Pope has been working with elementary age students who are deaf/hard of hearing (DHH) for five years. She is also an adjunct professor at Daytona State College teaching American Sign Language and an adjunct professor of Deaf Education at the University of North Florida. Tory received a B.A. in Deaf Studies from the University of New Hampshire and an M.A. from Gallaudet University in Deaf Education: Advanced Studies. Tory’s classroom emphasizes language choice for individual students. She teaches fourth and fifth grade students who are DHH at Lake Sybelia Elementary School with a team of six teachers and nine interpreters in Orange County Public Schools. She also works with a team of itinerant teachers and language pathologists.