It's that time of year again - ARCA Literacy participants are teaching sign language at area preschools. City programs generously donate books that ARCA students get to hand out to each child. The children love to learn sign language, read stories with us and then take a book home to share with their family. ARCA students have been traveling Albuqerque Headstarts for 8 years, sharing their love of reading and sign language with preschoolers in the community.
This sounds like a lot of fun for the ARCA individuals, and very informative to the children who are learning. I've always wanted to learn sign language to communicate well with people who are deaf. I've always found it fascinating. Maybe someday the ARCA students can go to the ARCA Lomas office and teach a class with oversight from the Training department in order to allow people to sign up and use as credit for their yearly training in increasing communication.
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