Sign Club offers Enchanted Evening

WORLAND –The Worland sign language club, with students from third to 12th grade, will be offering audience members an enchanted evening, singing and signing classic Disney songs, at 7 p.m. Thursday evening in the Worland High School Little Theater.

They are going to be doing 5 songs. It will be a short program because of spring and all the spring sports activities, Worland Middle School teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing Mallorey Melton said.

This is a sign language program to make sign language more common in the Worland area. Anybody can be a part of it, a high school student comes down to practice once a week with the group, Melton stated in an earlier interview. “Sign language is not just something for kids with special needs. It’s for the community and helps with language acquisition, vocabulary, memory, it’s more than just signing. The statistics are that one in every five kids by the time that they reach age 18 will have a hearing loss. That’s a pretty significant number and it’s continuing to grow. A lot of kids that are older have hearing loss due to shooting guns, due to iPads, due to music, so it seems as a society where we are having to go because of all the noise pollution,” Melton said.