Unfortunately, many holiday traditions and activities were not made with kids with disabilities in mind, which forces parents to think of creative solutions so that their children don’t have to miss out on anything because of their differences.
When doctors told David Hyche that his then 4-month-old daughter, Rachel, had lost her vision after being born prematurely, he thought she’d never have a normal, independent life. But as she got older, Rachel insisted on doing everything herself, and David quickly realized that nothing would hold his daughter back.
When Rachel was a year old, David was helping his local church plan an Easter egg hunt and knew his daughter would not let someone lead her around and hand her eggs, so he decided to come up with a way to let her hunt for eggs on her own.
“I was researching online how she could do an Easter egg hunt and have fun with it and I found that people were already making beeping eggs,” David said. “I called a man in Los Angeles and he told me how he did it and then I came up with a cheaper way to do it.”
Since the start of the project, David, who is a special agent for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), has received help from the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators to fund the making of more beeping Easter eggs, as well as send them out to anyone who requests them for a hunt for free.
“A lot of schools for the blind use the eggs year-round to teach kids how to locate things because it teaches them to use a logical pattern to search,” David said. “It’s teaching these kids independence. It’s not just an Easter egg hunt like it is for other people.”
Watch the entire video below to see more about how David came up with this genius solution.
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Hero Dad Makes Beeping Easter Eggs For His Blind Daughter To Hunt is an article from: LifeDaily