Utah Deaf Senior Citizens
Compiled & Written by Jodi Becker Kinner
Edited by Valerie G. Kinney
2013
Edited by Valerie G. Kinney
2013
Soon after the Utah Community Center for the Deaf was established in Bountiful, Utah in 1983, a group known as the Deaf Senior Citizens gathered to meet.
A group of Deaf Senior Citizens is dedicated to the enjoyment of golden years. These citizens are given an opportunity to further develop talent they showed during their working years. Senior citizens who joined the group in the early year were especially gifted in the art of working pottery and also working with paints. The talent they had developed were a great benefit to themselves and also to all those who were able to see their finished work. If there was one single group that was dedicated to helping the “old” years became the “gold” years, it was the Deaf Senior Citizens of Utah.
Today, the Deaf Senior Citizens program focuses on recreation, education, nutrition, medical, socialization, and dramatic/mime. Senior citizens participate in field trips and holiday festivities. They expand their creative abilities through informative and productive workshops in oil painting, sewing, arts and crafts. They maintain good health through exercise classes and billiards. Billards were played at the Utah Community Center for the Deaf in Bountiful, but not at the Sanderson Community Center of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
- 1970's - Deaf Senior Citizens of Utah
- 2004-2005 - Senior Citizens of Salt Lake (SCSL) & Card Club
- 2006-2007 - Deaf Seniors of Utah (DSU)
- 2010-2011 - Salt Lake Deaf Seniors (SLDS)
- 2012-2013 - Wasatch Deaf Seniors (WDS)