Holiday Traditions

Holiday photos with a Deaf child can be wonderful or disastrous, depending mostly on whether the adults running the camera understand what the child needs.

Building family rituals that include a Deaf child doesn’t require flipping your whole holiday upside down. Ten small, practical ideas that start today.

Most American families have visited a mall Santa, but very few know how the industry behind those visits actually operates. Here’s a short tour.

The Santa we know — red suit, white beard, North Pole, professional industry — is the product of a 1,700-year evolution. Here’s the short version.

You don’t need to be fluent in sign language to make a Deaf child feel included this holiday season. Five signs, learned in five minutes, can change the whole moment.

For many Deaf children, the holidays mirror everyday life at the dinner table—full of conversation, but not always full of access.