Box Elder

Angie Atwood

Early Childhood Specialist for the Deaf/Hard of Hearing

I was born and raised in Providence, in beautiful Cache Valley, Utah. I graduated with my Bachelor’s from Utah State University in 2008 in Family Consumer and Human Development with an emphasis in Deaf Education. I then graduated with my Master’s in 2010, also from Utah State in the Sensory Early Impaired program: deaf track, AKA Deaf Education, birth to three. 

While going to school, I worked at a child development center as an infant teacher. After I graduated, I worked for Up to Three Early Intervention as a service coordinator and developmental specialist for two and half years. 

In January of 2013, I began working as a parent advisor for the School for the Deaf and I work with families in Davis and Box Elder Counties. I have a great love and passion for working with families who have children with hearing loss. 

I also just graduated from the University of Utah with an endorsement in deaf and special education from age 3-5 and now also have a teaching license for preschool. 

In my spare time, I love to swim, ice skate, read, watch good movies and research family history. I also have a great love for traveling and my goals are to visit every state in the US and to experience Ireland in depth. I also have a great love for anything and everything Disney. 

Jen Kite

Early Childhood Specialist for the Deaf/Hard of Hearing

Jennifer Kite received an MEd. in Deaf Education/Early Childhood from Utah State University and is currently a Parent Infant Advisor for Cache and Box Elder Counties in Utah. She’s a strong advocate for babies and toddlers with hearing loss and their families. She provides home based services in order to educate parents and work one and one with them and their child. This is where her passion truly lies!  Her professional interests include technology changes in amplification, early literacy development, and brain development. She has been a PIP advisor for 13 years and is licensed as a teacher in the state of Utah. She is also certified through Baby Watch. 

Megan Clements

Deaf Mentor

Megan is originally from the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 12, her family moved to North Carolina for a couple years, then moved to Idaho when she was 14. Megan is the second of six children and is the only deaf individual in her immediate family. When her parents discovered her hearing loss around the age of 10 months, they began learning ASL and teaching it to Megan (along with speech therapy). Megan was mainstreamed with an interpreter from kindergarten through high school and played several sports growing up, including basketball, soccer and track.

 

After graduating from high school in Idaho, Megan went to Utah State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology (Pre-Physical Therapy) and a minor in ASL. Her experience as a TA in USU’s ASL labs helped her realize how much she enjoyed teaching, and she decided to explore a career path related to that. She enjoys making connections with people and sharing what she loves, and working as a Deaf Mentor has been a fantastic experience for her. Megan began working as a Deaf Mentor for the Parent Infant Program at Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind in 2023.

 

Megan met and married her husband at USU in 2021. They both enjoy rock climbing, camping, reading and playing board games together.