Brad Staton

Brad Staton is Acquisition Career Professional currently in his 24th year of service with the Department of Defense. He holds Level III Certification in Contracting and a member of the Defense Acquisition Corps. He is a 1990 graduate of Gallaudet University with a Bachelors of Arts. He is also a 2001 graduate of Texas State University at San Marcos with a Master’s of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies. Brad was diagnosed with profound/severe congenital hearing loss at the age of 4. He received his first hearing aids at the age of 4 and learned to speak/lip read during intensive speech therapy at the Roanoke Valley Speech and Hearing Center, Roanoke, VA. He attended Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind for one year, then he attended two years at the Roanoke City Public Schools mainstream program where he attended deaf classes in the morning and mainstreamed with the general population in the afternoon. He, then, was mainstreamed into the Roanoke County Public Schools where he graduated in 1985. Brad worked for the Virginia Department for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing as an Outreach Specialist in Southwest Virginia for two years. Brad has been teaching sign language off and on for 20 years in various locations. He has been on the board of the Northern Virginia Resource Center for the Deaf and Hard and Hearing for nearly 2 years.