Born three months premature and weighing 1 pound, 11 ounces, Cici, faced a number of health challenges, including breathing troubles.
Doctors feared Cici would not survive, but as her parents prayed and hoped for the best, they even played her music through a tape recorder in her isolette while she fought for life in the hospital, the tiny baby made big plans to the beats.
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The New Zealand teen recently embarked a sail boat with his family for a one-year excursion across the Pacific. While he’s on the open waters the teenager is certain to face tribulations, but what may be most challenging is managing his hearing technology among sea water and splashes.
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The 21-year-old went through the common “up-and-down rollercoaster” that most people born with hearing loss go through; the miscommunications, the stigmas… the stereotypes.
“From being excluded from social events and not being able to do certain jobs that I wanted to do – such as being in the police force as a police officer – this did not help my self-confidence or self-respect,” says Michael.
But one day, he turned to the camera and discovered that he didn’t need communication for his messages to come across. He lets his photos tell the story.
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It began with frequent vertigo episodes. Doctors eventually diagnosed the dizzy spells as Meniere’s Disease, and it began to affect her hearing.
Being hard-of-hearing myself, I always relied her to fill in the gaps that I missed if we were out in public or if I was talking to someone with her. When she began to lose her hearing, she began relying a bit more on me to help her hear, which was a totally different role.
My mom experienced the most difficulty with the transition to living with hearing loss, and of course everyone in my family supported her as much as we could. The Meniere’s disease left her with a new set of challenges she had never experienced before, but one thing has really helped her throughout her journey: her hearing aids.
The “Reaction Lights System,” approved recently by the NCAA, will give visual cues to athletes with a series of lights, allowing deaf and hard-of-hearing swimmers to know when a race begins.
The 25-year-old won the final round by one point, in a very close competition with Diksha Dagar of India at the 23rd Summer Deaflympics in Turkey on Wednesday. Kaylin’s winning point came at the 19th hole. It was a long day on the golf course for Kaylin. She was three down after the sixth hole, but made her comeback by winning holes seven, eight and nine.
“The moment of having the putt drop in on the 19th hole was amazing. I was filled with happiness and relief after such a neck-to-neck match,” says Kaylin. “It was a great tough match.”
Kaylin is almost entirely deaf and her parents found out about her hearing loss when she was two years old. But Kaylin has overcome more than just her hearing loss. She also had two dislocated hips at birth. The doctors told Kaylin she would never be able to walk.
He finds the humor in situations that deaf and hard of hearing people are placed in every day.
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D.J. Demers is a deaf comedian from Toronto, Canada and has worn behind-the-ear hearing aids since he was four years old. He has been performing stand-up comedy since 2009 and was featured on America’s Got Talent and also previously featured on the late-night talk show, Conan.
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