Listening with a Hearing Loss

Listening with a Hearing Loss

Born with a severe hearing loss, but not diagnosed until I was four when I received my first hearing aid, I worked hard to learn to hear, lipread and speak. Here I am at age 4, trying to make out songs on my little record player. Even with a hearing aid, as I couldn’t...
Lost in my own World

Lost in my own World

When I was 4 years, apart from some babbling and a few words, I was not yet talking. My parents had not picked up that something might be wrong. In Kindergarten I was truly lost in my own world oblivious to the singing and activities of the other children. My nursery...