Video: Hengevelde residents learn sign language to include 4-year-old boy in community

Residents of Hengevelde have learned sign language to help four-year-old Gijs Bloemen, who has a hearing impairment, communicate in daily life. The initiative began after Gijs’s mother, Anouk Doeschot, hung a wish on the village’s wishing tree last year for her son to feel fully included in the community, Hart van Nederland reported.