Ali's Story

Ali was born profoundly deaf. Her hearing loss was diagnosed when she was fourteen months old and she received her cochlear implant at nineteen months old. This means that she spent the first nineteen months of her life unable to hear and unable to develop language.

However, thanks to her cochlear implant, therapy at The Hearing House and the strong commitment from her family Ali now speaks clearly and naturally like hearing children her age. In fact, when Ali was four years old she had the language age of a seven year old. This is truly an amazing feat for a profoundly deaf child.

Although Alison is profoundly deaf in both ears she is talkative, bubbly and engaging like any of her hearing peers. She loves ballet and gymnastics and goes to mainstream school. She is a very sociable and well-integrated child.

Without her cochlear implant and support from The Hearing House, life would have been very different for Ali and her family. She would have been unable to communicate in the hearing and speaking world. She would have been socially isolated from most of her peers, she would have been limited in what she could achieve and would have been largely excluded from the mainstream hearing world.