Dr. Mike Tuccelli
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Media and Technology Coordinator
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Mike Tuccelli had his first contact with ASL as a transfer student at Gallaudet. He worked
at Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind for 21 years. The first two years as a science
and math teacher, then the last 19 years as Community Education Coordinator and as a
Sign Communication Proficiency Interview Director. He was a principal of a private K-12
school in Wisconsin and also was the science teacher at St. Johns School for the Deaf.
He is currently the ASL Senior Lecturer at the University of Florida, where he was given
the Teacher of the Year Award in 1999-2000 and was granted the President’s
Humanitarian Award in 2000. Florida Registry of Interpreters of the Deaf also recognized
him with the Distinguished Service Award in 1999. The Florida American Sign
Language Teacher’s Association also recognized him with a Distinguished Service
Award in 2005.
He was on the Board of the Assistive Technology Advisory Council and is the former
Treasurer of the Florida Registry of Interpreters of the Deaf and former vice president of
the Florida American Sign Language Teachers Association and the former president of
Wisconsin Association of the Deaf. He holds a doctorate from the University of Florida.
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