Ken Glickman is a widely recognized figure in the American Deaf community and known for his humorous contributions to Deaf culture.  His journey to becoming the guru of DEAFology unfolded during his 11 years as a profoundly deaf student at Clarke School for the Deaf in his native state of Massachusetts.  He then moved on to graduate from Dartmouth College magna cum laude with High Distinction in Psychology.  This somehow prepared him to join IBM in 1977 as a computer programmer.  He taught programming and computer graphics at National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at RIT (1980-81) and at Gallaudet University (1985-86) under IBM’s Faculty Loan Program.

In 1987, Glickman left IBM to establish DEAFinitely Yours Studio and has been griping about the tax forms ever since.  He has published five books, DEAFinitions (1986), More DEAFinitions! (1989), Deaf Proverbs - A Proverbial Professor's Points to Ponder (1999), Teacher's Guide to Deaf Proverbs (2007) and Deaf Proverbs Workbook (2007).

Ken frequently takes his comedy lecture show on the road in the form of three crash courses on Deaf culture, DEAFology 101, 201 and 301.  In these, Ken as “Prof. Glick” supplies his own unique brand of quirky logic and keen observation, drawn from his life experience not just as a deaf individual, but also as an author, a desktop publisher, a webmaster, a poet, a magician, a wordsmith and a comedian.  In 1999, he was seized with an extremely rare, compulsive condition that compelled him to jot down every passing thought and insight about deaf culture into proverb form.  Deaf Proverbs - A Proverbial Professor’s Points to Ponder is the result.  He may be cured now, although you’ll have to try one of his DEAFology courses to determine this for yourself.  You can reach "Prof. Glick" at either of his two "cyber-offices" at www.deafology.com and www.deafproverbs.com.

He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with Debbie.