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'Signing Santa' Gets Wishes At Cherry Creek Mall

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Dec 1, 2009 4:31 pm US/Mountain

'Signing Santa' Gets Wishes At Cherry Creek Mall

Written by Andrea Lopez

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Andrea Lopez

DENVER (CBS4) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: A child signs his Christmas wishes to Santa at Cherry Creek Mall on Tuesday.
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Children who live in a different world than most had a very special opportunity to tell Santa what they want for Christmas on Tuesday. What made their conversations with Saint Nick so special was the fact that he was able to speak to them in their own language -- American Sign Language.

For the past 16 years the Cherry Creek Shopping Center has brought in a Santa who can sign and bussed in hearing impaired children from all over the Denver metro area to give them an opportunity to take part in the same Christmas tradition that many children from the hearing world do.

"It has become a tradition, really one of our most special days here at Cherry Creek," said Nick LeMasters with the Cherry Creek Shopping Center. "It's a day we always look forward to and an opportunity to bring children from schools from throughout the metro area to come and visit Santa and to be spoken to in their language -- American Sign Language."

Many of the children cut out pictures from magazines and catalogs of the things they would like for Christmas and pasted them on paper so that they could show Santa what they wanted. Some older children who have visited the signing Santa in the past were there to help mentor the younger children and help them communicate what they would like to see under their trees Christmas morning.

"I feel this is really amusing because if I go to a regular Santa I have to use an interpreter and it's not the same," said Greta Wolcott, a student at the Rocky Mountain Deaf School. "Santa signs and the kids can see Santa instead of having to use an interpreter or other means of communication."

Santa will be signing to hearing impaired children Tuesday and Wednesday at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center. About 150 hearing impaired children will be brought to the mall in buses to pay him a visit.

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