Jul 24
Reyn Schadt Cries After Hearing Herself For First Time With Cochlear Implant (VIDEO)
Posted in: Today's ChiliFor the first 14 months of her life, Reyn Schadt’s world was silent.
“Finding out that she had hearing loss was shocking. I really didn’t know much about people with hearing loss,” her mother, Courtney Schadt, told local Louisville, Ky., station WDRB. “I assumed that she would have to use sign language and that she might not be able to go to mainstream school.”
Reyn is one of about 30,000 children born with a congenital virus called Cytomegalovirus each year. Her parents hoped for a miracle in the form of a cutting-edge cochlear implant — a small device that connects with a child’s auditory nerve and conveys auditory signals to the ear.
Post a Comment