Mon Dec 24, 2012, 03:37 AM

A mall Santa makes a hearing-disabled boy's Christmas a real merry day:

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The parents of a hearing-disabled boy received a heartwarming holiday gift from a mall Santa Claus who unexpectedly managed to communicate with their son.

Cameron Sylvester, 3, requires two hearing aids due to auditory neuropathy, his father told WCVB. The family recently went to a mall southwest of Boston so he and his sister, Arianna, could visit Santa Claus.

In the WCVB video above, the man who played Santa says he noticed Cameron's condition and, using a gesture similar to adjusting a baseball cap, asked in American Sign Language if the boy had been good this year.

"I wanted to cry," his mother said. "A lot of people don't know sign language, and there's Santa, and he knew what Cameron needed to see."

The moment touched both the Sylvesters and the man who played Santa. "It's wonderful. I live for moments like those," Santa said in the video, which also appears on Yahoo! News.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/23/santa-claus-uses-sign-lan_n_2347084.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

A real Santa for sure......

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A mall Santa makes a hearing-disabled boy's Christmas a real merry day: (Original post)	Are_grits_groceries	Dec 2012	OP
is jerry springer doing the voiceover?	Tunkamerica	Dec 2012	#1
I love it, except for dad's parting comment	Scootaloo	Dec 2012	#2
what you said is something that I've noticed more and more as I've gotten older	Victor_c3	Dec 2012	#3
it's often based on personal experience also	JI7	Dec 2012	#4
In certain parts of our country, the father's sentiment is truly a valid point. n/t	savebigbird	Dec 2012	#5
I think when you have a child with special needs	justiceischeap	Dec 2012	#6
Carl Sandburg wrote in, "The People, Yes," about a traveller entering a new land. . .	Journeyman	Dec 2012	#11
awww	Libertas1776	Dec 2012	#7
That was wonderful.	JNelson6563	Dec 2012	#8
Remember in "Miracle on 34th Street?	obamanut2012	Dec 2012	#9
I think there's something in my eye.	Whovian	Dec 2012	#10
What a wonderful story.	Arkansas Granny	Dec 2012	#12
k&r	Liberal_in_LA	Dec 2012	#13
A Rabbi recently explained	sarisataka	Dec 2012	#14

Response to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 04:30 AM

Tunkamerica (4,355 posts)

1. is jerry springer doing the voiceover?

pretty cool. my little brother took sign language as his foreign language in college.

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 05:01 AM

Scootaloo (5,877 posts)

2. I love it, except for dad's parting comment

"It's nice to know there are still people left in the world that care."

This idea, that good people are somehow a rare, endangered species, always irks me.

Oh well. One sour note doesn't ruin the song, I suppose.

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 05:45 AM

Victor_c3 (793 posts)

3. what you said is something that I've noticed more and more as I've gotten older

... well, to my ripe old age of 32. But I've been in some pretty shitty situations and over and over again I've learned that most people are good people and most people want to help if given the wherewithal to do it.

I've been trying to teach my kids that same lesson. Most people are good people and most people do care.

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 05:58 AM

JI7 (40,091 posts)

4. it's often based on personal experience also

or even if someone had a bad few days and someone does something nice that would really stand out to them.

anyways, i hope it was just his way of saying something nice rather than them not being treated well too many times.

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 06:42 AM

savebigbird (378 posts)

5. In certain parts of our country, the father's sentiment is truly a valid point. n/t

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 07:02 AM

justiceischeap (9,818 posts)

6. I think when you have a child with special needs

you see the world differently because the world sees you differently. For most of us, we see people all around that care but some aren't that lucky.

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 05:00 PM

Journeyman (9,202 posts)

11. Carl Sandburg wrote in, "The People, Yes," about a traveller entering a new land. . .

who comes upon a farmer standing in his field. The stranger asks him, "What sort of people live here." And the farmer asks back, "What sort are they where you're from?" And the stranger tells of a "lowdown, lying, thieving, gossiping, backbiting lot." To which the farmer replies, "Well, I guess that's about the kind of folks you'll find around here." Comes another stranger with the same question, but he tells of a "decent, hardworking, lawabiding, friendly lot" who live where he's from. To which the farmer replies, "Well, I guess that's about the kind of folks you'll find around here."

Abe Lincoln said it best, "Most people are about as happy as they set their minds to be."

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 08:26 AM

Libertas1776 (2,827 posts)

7. awww

such a heartwarming story. Thanks for sharing this

It reminds me of that scene when Santa unexpectedly signs to a deaf little girl in that remake of Miracle on 34th St. (In the original, he speaks Dutch to a war orphan.)