Silent Environment Educational Kamp, Sponsor of Medi-Sign
SEEK's Mission
SEEK’s mission is to promote communication between the Deaf and Hearing Communities. We develop and implement programs and projects that help promote usage of American Sign Language.
Silent Educational Kamp is announcing completion of its
Medi-Sign project. We want to acknowledge and thank the following Medi-Sign project sponsors.
The following SEEK supporters made the Medi-Sign project possible:
Institute for Emergency Medical Education
University of Alaska
Alaska Pacific University
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
Arthur Vining Davis Foundation
Washington National Foundation
Leonardt Foundation
Aetna Insurance
Safeco Insurance
AGFA Corporation
Norman Archibald Charitable Foundation
Charis Fund
Culpepper Foundation
Dreyfus Foundation
Fair Foundation
Frost Foundation
Grover Herman Foundation
Dr. Harry J. Heeb Foundation
Security Pacific Bank
Sidney Stern Memorial Trust
Smith-Kline Beecham
Wharton Foundation
and 7 Other Donors
About SEEK's Director
Dr. Joseph Garcia has been teaching American Sign Language at colleges and universities since the 1970s. He served as an ASL interpreter in medical and legal settings as well as in high schools and colleges since 1976. He has been active in the Deaf community throughout his adult life. He served on the Alaskan Governor’s Committee on Employment for Persons with Disabilities and has received several major awards for his ground-breaking research in communication and youth development.
Dr. Garcia’s Medical Sign Language, published in 1983, offered a dictionary of ASL signs for medical terms. His internationally known programs titled Sign with your Baby in the U.S. and Dr. Joseph Garcia’s Complete Guide to Baby Sign Language in the UK have been credited with beginning the baby signing revolution. His new Baby Sign Language programs and Fingerspelling books and online courses can be reviewed at: https://drjosephgarcia.
His military emergency response background coupled with decades of signing experience have resulted in the creation of the Medi-Sign program.