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INDIANAPOLIS (MIRROR INDY) — David Geeslin can still remember what it felt like to start learning American Sign Language as a toddler.
“My world became much clearer and more colorful,” Geeslin said through an ASL interpreter. “It wasn’t black and white anymore.”
Sign language opened up opportunities for Geeslin. When he was 3 years old, he enrolled at Indiana School for the Deaf. After earning his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees, Geeslin served as superintendent there until retiring in 2025.
Now, though, Geeslin and other prominent members of the local Deaf community are concerned that a new master’s program at Butler University will result in fewer deaf kids learning to sign.
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