About Me
The oldest child of an oldest child, I was born in Washington, DC, where I spent the first fourteen years of my life before moving to Los Angeles, California with my mom and baby sister. I went through public schools with a slowly progressive hearing loss and entered adulthood profoundly deaf. Because there was so much I could hear, I never suspected there were things I was not hearing. When my hearing loss became noticeable around age 12, it was seen not for what it was, a disability, but as another manifestation of my stupidity. I could not explain to others what I did not fully understand myself. Then before I came to terms with hearing loss, I began to lose my vision to the point of legal blindness. I found myself in a strange world but struggled to remain functional in it because it was the only world I knew. Speaking for the Child tells the story of how tenacity and imagination can triumph over life's most harrowing circumstances. For more information visit the Speaking for the Child website
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