Outreach Holiday Party for families | CO School for the Deaf & Blind

by Jennifer McLellan

The collaboration of 7 different organizations, CSDB, Rocky Mountain Deaf School (RMDS), Hands & Voices, Colorado Association of the Deaf (CAD), The Listen Foundation, AG Bell and Feel the Beat, made the Holiday Party event for the families with Deaf/HH children (birth to 8) a smashing success. Each organization had a booth to share, and the families enjoyed stopping by to learn more about all of us.

Tera, our Interim Superintendent, greeted the families, who loved talking with her.

We had more than fifty families attending and the Deaf/HH children loved their time mingling with each other.

RMDS staff, CAD and CSDB role played the book “Dear Yeti” by James Kwan. The families enjoyed every moment of the story.

Their eyes widened when they saw the Deaf signing Santa entering the room with a signing Elf. Each child received a book to continue their literacy journey.

Everyone left the party with a happy face. That counts the most, really! Be seeing you all next year.

Collage: left, crowd watches the storytellers; right, Interim Superintendent Spangler in conversation; lower, small children use ASL with Santa;