I was in AIT, when Hannah started getting her ear infections, and having hearing problems. She was six years old and in first grade, she was getting all A’s a very bright, happy go lucky little girl. Hannah was always laughing and playing she is a very sweet little girl. The frighting time, i was away at a traing school, that my little sister Hannah, experience hearing loss.
Hannah was born on the brisk autumn morning of October 29th 2003, she was a beautiful red headed, little chubby baby. After my mom had examined her ,she noticed a needle shapped hole in her neck. Which confused my mom. She knew Hannah did not get a shot in her neck. My mom asked the doctor about the hole, and the doctor told mom it was nothing to worry about, and it would more than likely go away on its own. So my mom did not worry about it. At Hannah’s six week and eighteen month checkups, my mom brought the tiny needle shapped hole up,and the doctors still said the same thing about it going away on its own. Hannah had nummerous well child checkups and immunizations, each time docter said the same thing .
When Hannah started kindergarten, some strange things started happening with the hole in her neck. One day she had some gooey, slimy clear looking fluid running down her neck. Mom thought she just got something on herself, but as mom checked this she realized it came from the hole. This horrified my mom ,so she made an appointment and took Hannah to the doctor. Again she got the same prognosis that it was nothing to worry about and would go away. Hannah kept pulling this gooey, slimy, gunck out of her neck .She could stretch it like chewing gum, and when she did this it would make her gag. Hannah said it tickled her tonsils. My mom was ...
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... were beating in her chest.They gave Hannah her anestia ,and she fell asleep. She was in surgery for three hours, the doctor had to make two four inch incisions on her neck. One above the hole ,one below, in order to get all the tails of these cysts. The doctor said it was a good thing they caught it when they did, because it could have grown downward and strangled her heart out, or it could have went upwards ,and caused all kinds of different things with the spinal column.
Today Hannah is a healthy happy ten year old little girl. She does exceptional in school, she is on the honor roll. Hannah hears perfectly well and loves life, she calls her scars “life scars”, she says because she would not be alive without them. Thankfully mom was persistent and stayed on top of something the doctors told her over and over was nothing to worry about.
After being labeled clinically deaf at eighteen months, life didn’t start out easy for Marlee. However, this didn’t stop her from trying to live a normal life. She grew up in a mainstream school setting. She says that this really helped shape her vibrant
Mary Hoge had gone into labor Sunday 23rd of July 1972 giving birth to her fifth child, Robert Hoge. When Robert Hoge was born, his own mother didn’t want him. Robert’s mother Mary thought he was too ugly, that he was, in appearance, a monstrous baby. Robert was born with a tumor the size of a tennis ball right in the middle of his face and with short twisted legs. Robert was born in Australia, where he would have to undergo numerous operations that carried very high risk in order to try and live a “normal” life.
Have you ever felt like there was nothing you could do for your child? In the book, Deaf Like Me, by Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley, I can tell you the journey that Lynn’s parents had to take to get her help. This book was excellent, I really liked the way that they described the ways that they tried to help Lynn to understand the world around her. In this book, I also saw how a mother and father can do anything for their child so that they can understand all that is around them. This book, is also a great asset to any family that might be unexpectedly thrown into a situation that they do not expect, such as a deaf child.
At first, Hannah was a pesty, teenage girl who didn’t care about her family or religion. After undergoing a harsh journey, Hannah soon began to change her attitude. She now understands her family and her heritage better. As Hannah’s mind shifts, the theme is developed. Hannah understands how the events in a person’s life can impact the person they are today. In addition, she learned that it is important to remember our history. Those who do not remember the past are destined to repeat
...o account that much of the evidence is the author’s own works, that a bias is present. Darrow strongly believes in the integration of students with hearing loss into the music classroom. She does however point out opposing views and successfully dismantles them with strong and sound reasoning. One of the points Darrow makes is that many people believe that music is a “hearing value” and that the ability to make discriminations about what a person might hear is solely a function of hearing, when in reality it is actually a function of listening. “Listening is a mental process; hearing is a physical process,” states Darrow. The music learning environment is a great place for these students to develop their listening skills. “The development of good listening skills allows students with hearing losses to use their residual hearing to the maximum extent possible” (Darrow)
Hazel Grace, is a teenage girl who unfortunately suffers several of the cruelties of life, yet she is shining symbol of hope. Even though since she got diagnosed she quit school, her friends don’t exactly treat her like the girl she used to be she is as smart as can be, and kind at the same time. She has stayed alive lo...
That same night, I walked by Hannah’s cell and I saw her staring down at a newspaper clip out of a young teenager shaking hands with another man. I recognized that the boy was the man who visited today. Could he be Hannah’s son? If he is, then why hadn’t he visit her all this time? Hannah brushed her fingers across the books on her shelf, and took out a sheet of paper and started writing in it. This time, her eyes turned grey and they were empty, but free.
Everyone has scars, they can remind us of the past and they can remind us that wounds heal. We can pick to let the scars renew the pain they cause when they were made of we can use them to look back and see how well we’ve improved. They may always be there but they don’t have to affect us.
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see” – Mark Twain.
...lusion, I feel that it is heartbreaking that so much weight was placed on the shoulders of such a small child, unnecessarily. Even though he was born hearing, he was born into Deaf culture. His parents and a large part of his father’s family were deaf. He didn’t need to spend his whole childhood and early adulthood feeling like an outsider, never really feeling like he fit in. His grandparents as well as his parents, who went along with it, were only doing what they thought was best for him, what the doctors had told them was best. On Mark’s web site, in the section What is Deaf Culture? The Joy of Belonging, there is a quote that I think sums it up, “The cultural aspects of the Deaf world are vital in providing a healthy sense of well-being. It focuses on what Deaf people CAN do, as opposed to the pathological approach of focusing on what's wrong.” (Drolsbaugh Web)
Have you ever felt like there was nothing that you can do for your child? In this book, Deaf Like Me, by Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley, I can see the journey that Lynn’s parents took to get her help. (Spradley & Spradley, 1978). This book was an excellent read. I really liked the way that they described the ways they tried to help Lynn to understand the world around her. The book, is a great asset for any family that might be unexpectedly put into a situation that they know nothing about such as a deaf child.
Carly’s Voice is a book about a young girl’s journey with autism. Carly was born in January of 1995 with her twin sister Taryn. The Fleschmann family already had a young son, who was rambunctious, then they added two baby girls to the mix. Before even being diagnosed with autism, Carly seemed different than her sister Taryn. She would show little emotion and not hit the milestones she should’ve been hitting as a toddler. This concerned her parents, her parents started Carly in early intervention. At the age of two Carly was diagnosed with autism and developmental delay. She was put into a school called Northland Educational Centre at two and a half, around this time her mother, Tammy, was diagnosed with cancer. There was a lot going on with
The story started when Henrietta felt knots in her body. People around her said that maybe the knots were because she was pregnant. However, Henrietta never felt these knots before she was pregnant. After a week, she felt something was wrong with her body and she turned up pregnant with her fifth child. Her cousins, Sadie and Margaret, told her that the pain probably had something to do with the baby. “However, Henrietta said that it was not, because the knot is there before the baby” (Skloot 36). After her son was born, Henrietta told her husband, David Lack, to bring her to the doctor because she was bleeding in her vagina when it was not her time. They went to a clinic at Johns Hopkins hospital. In this hospital, Howard Jones, a gynecologist, did an examination of Henrietta an...
After her doctor’s visit that she reluctantly went to, she announced to the family that she was suffering from a damaged heart valve. We were all terrified about what would happen to her, but she assured us that the doctor said it could be fixed with a minimal risk.
When Helen was nineteen months old she came down with a serious fever. The doctors called it congestion of the brain and stomach. Suddenly, the fever went away and she became blind. Helen was having a bath when her mother moved her hand in front of her face and she did not blink or move her eyes at all. She did it several times to see if she would blink but she never did. Helen’s mother realized that her daughter had become blind.