What is Blended Bridges?

Blended Bridges is an annual event filled with fun and engaging American Sign Language learning activities. This program is designed for hearing families with Deaf children or children that need to use sign language for communication. We encourage and support full communication within families by focusing on sign language skills and cultural awareness.

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History of Bridges

​Blended Bridges began as a summer day camp for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing students, as well as their hearing siblings. We focused on sign language communication for the hearing students while assisting the Deaf students with academic support. As Bridges continued to grow each year, the communication needs within family units became clear. Bridges shifted into an ASL immersion camp which encouraged all of the students to communicate with each other with a focus on those within the same household.

Due to the pandemic in 2020, we conducted an online version of Bridges. Having the students meet with us from within their own homes allowed us the opportunity to work with their parents and guardians, as well. The need for sign language communication between hearing parents and their Deaf/HOH children is critical. We decided to broaden our horizon and include parents and guardians in the program as much as possible.​

Bridges 2021
As this country slowly progresses back to a "normalcy," we have opened our doors again and are hosting the Bridges program within our facility. We had a one-day event, July 10th 2021, which included the entire families of Deaf children.  The sign language communication improvement seen within the families who attended Bridges was phenomenal! We had families with Deaf children as young as five to as old as thirty-five. What an incredible blessing it was to see those families open up to each other and have genuine conversations together like never before.​

Bridges 2022 & Beyond

Blended Bridges is presenting an all-new event in 2022 called Blended Family Fun. Check out more details here!