My Short Stories. Tone Deaf, with a heart of Gold.

All in all, the family was happy. Audrey was a clever child; she managed to walk at an early age and was advanced for her years. However, one thing that was slow was her speech. When she started Nursery, she couldn’t talk as well as the other children, which concerned the teachers, who called in her parents. Audrey’s mum had noticed her developmental delay in speech but attributed it to her daughter’s quicker adaptation to other skills, so she never worried much about it.

Audrey herself was always contented. She smiled, lighting up a room, and rarely cried, except when hungry. After a few tests with a speech therapist, the truth was discovered: Audrey was profoundly deaf. She could not hear anything at all, failing to respond to any level of sound the therapist tested. Her parents were shocked; they simply had not known their child was deaf.

Pretty soon, Audrey was fitted with hearing aids. After just two months, she began to respond, and her speech developed a hundredfold. While it became clear that Audrey would never be able to hear one hundred percent, her parents swiftly adapted, taking personal lessons from a sign language expert.

Audrey excelled at school. Despite her disability, her aptitude constantly amazed her parents. Audrey went on to complete her doctorate and soon became a fine doctor.

The moral of the story: A disability is not an inability. With love, support, and determination, there are no limits to what a person can achieve.

Disablement does not impair success.:)

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