Susan R. Easterbrooks is Professor Emerita, Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. She has been in the field of deaf education for over 45 years as a teacher, lecturer, clinician, school administrator, school psychologist, researcher, and author. She has written numerous articles and chapters as well as three textbooks on language and literacy development in DHH students, and she is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.