"Signing Santa" Visits Children With Hearing Loss

[Miss-Delectable]

"Signing Santa" Visits Children With Hearing Loss | Corpus Christi, TX | KRISTV.com |

It was a very merry morning for children at the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Center. Today "Signing Santa" visited the center for their annual Christmas celebration. Children with varying degrees of hearing loss enjoyed some breakfast, toys, and christmas crafts. The kids also got a special opportunity to talk to Santa and his elves using sign language.

"The kids have their Christmas. They're not different, they're not the one that has to have the interpreter come up. Everybody signs, everybody communicates and all of the deaf kids feel like Christmas is theirs just as much as everybody else's" said Executive Director, Mary Wambach.

 

[autumneve]

Another wonderful article to share, thank you for bringing a smile to my face

 

[blondon704]

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Had to add this to the signing santa. This is my son Calyx going to see santa for his first time. If they put the video up I will post it, it was so cute. Santa kept signing I love you to my son and at first all he would do was sign no no no no I love mommy but then finally he said ok I love you and hi fived him 100 times lol. It was a very awesome experience today.

 

[Bebonang]

I don't like the media way of saying "hearing loss" when you know perfectly well this is a "Signing Santa". Any hearing and deaf people can see that. We are not stupid. It make it sound dumb and feel sorry for us, deaf and hard of hearing children. Signing Santa is enough to know that there are deaf and hard of hearing children anyway. What is the big deal making the media like that? :roll:

Signing Santa is great so that Deaf children can understand what he said and the Deaf children can sign to him on what they want to get for Christmas. That is the way to go.