Len Roberson, Ph.D.; SC:L, CI/CT

Dr. Roberson is currently a Professor of ASL/English Interpreting at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida. He as been at UNF since 1998 and in that time has been the Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dean of the Graduate School, graduate program director of the Deaf Education program, Department Chair, and is a tenured Professor in the department of Exception, Deaf, and Interpreter Education. Dr. Roberson has been involved in the fields of deaf education and interpreting for 30 years and holds a Ph.D. from Gallaudet University in Deaf Education and Interactive Instructional Design. He is a nationally certified interpreter, holding both the certificate of interpretation (CI) and the certificate of transliteration (CT) and the Specialist Certificate: Legal (SC:L) from the National Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID). Dr. Roberson has published several articles in the area of teacher effectiveness and preparation and service-learning in interpreter education. His current research is in the fields of legal interpreting and mediated educational experiences of Deaf children, and effective use of technologies for teaching and learning. He serves on national committees and is co-editor for the international Journal of Interpretation. Since joining UNF in 1998, Dr. Roberson has received more than 3 million dollars in external funding as the principal investigator for numerous grants. Dr. Roberson is married and has eight beautiful children, 4 girls and 4 boys.