A professional Santa Claus is using American Sign Language to communicate and bring joy to deaf children this Christmas season.
Charles Graves, 52, has been traveling across the nation for the past several weeks as a fully authorized member of a professional Santa Claus team,to Today. He is also one of the rare Santas in the U.S. to use sign language, as he is also deaf himself.
“As a child, I was very excited to receive a gift, but then you just kind of go away and you’re like, there’s no connection there,” he“Children look at me now and they’re like, wow, you know, there’s a connection there with the deaf culture. And I can always connect with the hearing kids as well,” he added.
Graves performed at over a dozen gigs in November, including in Santa Paula, California, San Antonio, and Austin, Texas. He also does Zoom gigs from time to time. “Growing up, we never had a deaf Santa Claus, and now we do,” April Woodward told ABC’s Good Morning America. “And that’s very wonderful, especially for my son to be able to communicate and have that vision of the memory of seeing Santa Claus, and having that positive communication is very inspiring.”
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