Ann Gleason, M.S.

Ms. Gleason is a Teacher of the Deaf who has a class of hearing impaired children in the CASE Collaborative Preschool program in Concord, MA.  She holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, and a Master of Science degree in Deaf Education from Canisius College in Buffalo, NY.  She also studied speech pathology and audiology at Eastern Illinois University.  She taught a self-contained class of Kindergarten children who were hearing impaired in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for three years, and spent another two years as an itinerant teacher, serving youngsters with hearing loss from two to sixteen years of age.  She lived overseas for 12 years while her husband worked for the U.N.  During this time, she tutored Canadian children in Ghana, and taught typical preschool students at the American Preschool in Ankara, Turkey.  Ms. Gleason and her family relocated to Massachusetts, and she joined the CASE Hearing, Speech and Language Preschool program in 1992.  She continues to teach and help her students develop the communication skills they will need to be successful in a general education setting.