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Silent dinner offers Warhill students a chance to use sign language - Daily Press
The food court at Richmond's Regency Square Mall was noisy with conversation around dinnertime on a recent Friday night, but one section of the dining area was nearly silent.
The dozens of diners in this section spoke with their fingers instead of their lips as they used American Sign Language to converse about school, work, family and other areas of interest over pizza, Chick-fil-A sandwiches and Chinese food.
They were participating in one of Richmond's silent dinners, a monthly gathering that gives members of the city's deaf community and other American Sign Language, or ASL, users a chance to socialize in a group setting. Among the diners were 15 Warhill High School ASL students, who traveled from James City County with their teacher to practice their newly acquired skills at the three-hour dinner.
In Williamsburg-James City County Schools, ASL, like French, German, Latin and Spanish, is considered a foreign language and can be taken to satisfy the district's world language graduation requirement. Sixty Warhill students are enrolled in three ASL classes this semester. The number includes Lafayette High School students who take the class at Warhill.
The food court at Richmond's Regency Square Mall was noisy with conversation around dinnertime on a recent Friday night, but one section of the dining area was nearly silent.
The dozens of diners in this section spoke with their fingers instead of their lips as they used American Sign Language to converse about school, work, family and other areas of interest over pizza, Chick-fil-A sandwiches and Chinese food.
They were participating in one of Richmond's silent dinners, a monthly gathering that gives members of the city's deaf community and other American Sign Language, or ASL, users a chance to socialize in a group setting. Among the diners were 15 Warhill High School ASL students, who traveled from James City County with their teacher to practice their newly acquired skills at the three-hour dinner.
In Williamsburg-James City County Schools, ASL, like French, German, Latin and Spanish, is considered a foreign language and can be taken to satisfy the district's world language graduation requirement. Sixty Warhill students are enrolled in three ASL classes this semester. The number includes Lafayette High School students who take the class at Warhill.