PLAINS TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A special easter egg hunt is helping local children with visual impairments experience holiday fun in their own unique way. Northeast Sight Services held its Annual Beeping Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday at the East Mountain Holiday Inn near Wilkes-Barre.
About 30 impaired kids and their siblings took part.
They used sound to find the eggs and build important skills like independence, mobility, and spatial awareness.
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It can be a challenge for many visually-impaired kids to learn to locate and retrieve objects.
"We're thrilled to have this opportunity for blind and visually impaired children to kind of come out, have a great time, all while doing something their sighted peers get to do this time of year," Northeast Sight Services President and CEO Amy Feldman stated.
"He's been going on about Easter Eggs all day, Easter egg, he wants to find an orange one, a blue one, he's listing all the colors of which Easter eggs he wants to find today," Swoyersville parent Megan Ruseskas said.
This is the eighth year Northeast Sight Services has hosted the Beeping Egg Hunt in Luzerne County.
