More than 50 Palm Beach County elementary school students got to meet a sign language-friendly Santa Claus at the Mall at Wellington Green on Thursday.
More than 50 Palm Beach County elementary school students got to meet a sign language-friendly Santa Claus at the Mall at Wellington Green on Thursday.
The experience was a special one catered just for a select group of students at Indian Pines Elementary and Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School.
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“Often deaf and hard of hearing kids are isolated because they don’t have people who communicate in their language who they can understand, and so this just makes them feel a part of everything because they’re included in simple things like just meeting Santa and talking to Santa for the first time,” said Lisa Cunningham, a deaf and hard of hearing resource teacher at the School District of Palm Beach County.
