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Julianne

Julianne

My story with deafness and cochlear implants begins long before I was even born,with my family’s story of hearing loss and my older siblings, Jessica and Jared. My oldestsister, Jessica, was born with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss, and after a seriesof...
Bella

Bella

Bella Grace Brady was born February 22, 2012.  While at the hospital, Bella’s newborn hearing screens were normal.  At the age of two, I requested a speech evaluation Bella only because her older brother needed speech therapy and I wanted to make sure...
Vivi

Vivi

WISE was the answer to our journey of Listening and Spoken Language (LSL). Watching Vivi struggle for 2 years (her first 2 years of life) was heartbreaking.  Out of the womb, Vivi had a dynamic personality, even with her hearing loss.  We knew we wanted...
Kailin

Kailin

The true sound of freedom Everyone experiences freedoms of some kind. Freedom of speech, freedom to pursue happiness and freedom to worship are just a few freedoms Americans enjoy. There are other freedoms we enjoy and perhaps take for granted. As parents of an adult...
Luke

Luke

We did not find any problem with my little boy’s language until he was two years old when he could not talk in sentences. However, no diagnosis was made until he was 4 years old when he still could say only a few words. He had been in daycare for two years when the...
Caroline

Caroline

Our story begins long ago with a dream to bring a child into our family through adoption. In the spring of 2005 we got that incredible call that every adoptive family awaits. We had a girl and she was currently in an orphanage in Fujian, China. We were told all the...