Kester L. Horn-Marsh has a BA in English education from Avila University with an MA in Deaf Education from the University of Kansas. He was a secondary language arts teacher at Kansas School for the Deaf before becoming the Bilingual Specialist. He is also an AEBPD bilingual mentor in his 20th year at KSD. He taught ASL courses in Lawrence public schools as well as at the University of Kansas. He works for Sorenson as a video relay interpreter. He is an OCODA with two Deaf children and 3 hearing children. Finally, he has co-wrote a book chapter, "ASL Immersion I and II", with Dr. Petra Horn-Marsh in a Gallaudet University publication of Multilingual Teaching Strategies for Diverse Deaf Students. Kester assesses D/HH children’s language, and develops and provides services such as ASL tutoring, fingerspelling intervention, ASL Immersion class, and Language Facilitation. Kester is a team member of ASLCIA.
