Dorothy Casterline, who codified American Sign Language, dies at 95

As a young researcher at Gallaudet University in the early 1960s, Dorothy Casterline helped write the first comprehensive dictionary of American Sign Language, a book that revolutionized the study of Deaf culture.

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