Reason Why

Since I was discovered that I was hard of hearing at the age of five, learning how to deal with hearing aids and FM systems that schools had provided was not that hard for me considering that I had already learned how to talk and read. My mother tells me often that she is astounded that I learned how to talk and read without being able to hear people. As a child, I always stayed by my mom and sat in her lap. My mom thought this was because I was shy but now knowing that I am hard of hearing, it was because I was trying to listen my mom. I never fully understood how to hear after getting my hearing aids because I had always listened by reading lips. Today, I do not often listen when people talk, I read their lips instead. I know that other children in public schools are not as fortunate as I am and they struggle to listen to teachers and their peers. Knowing how public schools within South Carolina are helping these children to be able to learn without struggling would comfort me.