The founder of Toy Like Me, Rebecca Atkinson, was watching her children play with toys one day and realized that none of the toys were representing real people with disabilities. Noticing there was a lack of positive representation of disabilities, […]
Meagan Ackerman and Lana Wilson, are two mothers both raising children with hearing loss. The two mothers met on social media and decided to join together to create an account to teach their family and friends American Sign Language. When Meagan […]
We often hear stories about kids eating toys, and swallowing rings. For the Mulin’s family, they encountered their own experience with finding a bead in their son’s ear when he was 18 months old. Graham Mulins, now five-years-old, was just a […]
Within the first day of Celia’s life, it was suspected that she had a hearing loss. Although it was suspected it still took 18 months to officially diagnose her with unilateral hearing loss. Having had to wait almost two years to […]
The day James Rios was fit with a hearing aid was the first time his mother, Carrie Rios called out her son’s name and he turned to exactly where she was with a smile. It was the day James’ world […]
Dominic Ehnisz is 13 years-old and has single-sided deafness. When Dominic was just three years old, his mom, Danielle Hurst-Ehnisz, sensed that there was something going on with Dominic, but she couldn’t exactly place what it was.
Hearing loss in one ear, or unilateral hearing loss, can often go unnoticed in children until they are in a classroom or more social environments. This was the case of seven-year-old Callie. When Callie Huerta was born, she had a […]
25-year-old Jason Brügger dreamed about being a circus artist since he was a child. As he was on his path to becoming a circus artist, he experienced sudden hearing loss from a severe inner ear infection. “The doctors advised me against […]
After having grown up on an island with hearing loss, Cecilia James heard the sound of waves crashing for the first time in her life while wearing a Phonak hearing aid. Her newfound hearing gave her confidence and motivation, which she […]
