Kids participate in sound-focused Easter egg hunt

Kids of all ages participated in a unique Easter egg hunt at the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind Wednesday.

The staff along with Century Link Pioneers organizes an egg hunt every year using beeping eggs. They lay them out on a field, and kids who are visually-impaired find them by following the sound.

“It gives them the same opportunity as other kids to have the same experience of an egg hunt,” Certified Orientation Mobility Specialist Lisa Vandam said.

For children like 7-year-old Amaya Tellers, it was a first.

“I’m super excited,” she said. “So excited, it makes me want to run my show.”

Once the kids found the beeping eggs, they traded them for jelly bean-filled eggs. But the activity is about more than candy or fun. Vandam said it helps them with sound localization, zoning in on a sound and traveling toward it.

“It transfers over into other environments,” Vandam said. “And it’s a skill that they can use for their life.”