Tell us a little bit about yourself and your plans for college.

My name is Autumn Appel, I am a high school senior and I will be attending Edinboro University this fall. I will be majoring in early childhood education and deaf studies I took American Sign Language (ASL) in high school and fell in love with it. While learning ASL I realized just how little people understand ASL and know how to use it to communicate with deaf people. This broke my heart because I felt that the deaf community had been left out and forgotten about. My goal is to teach the deaf community and hearing community so that we all have someone to communicate with. I also plan to advocate/fight to have ASL offered as a "language" in high schools.

Autumn from Pennsylvania
High School Senior
West Allegheny High School