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Franky’s Story, Part II

After Franky had recovered from his surgery, he began speech therapy. His speech therapists used a strictly audio-verbal method. This meant that they required children to develop speech and comprehension independent of cues like lip-reading or hand signals.
For some children, this works successfully. However, for Franky, it was a frustrating and fruitless process. After many [...]

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Franky’s Story, Part I

Franky was born into a world of silence. Stark, empty silence. He couldn’t hear our clamoring voices as we held him for the first time. He couldn’t hear the piano notes that drummed endlessly under the fingers of six older siblings. He couldn’t even hear his own cry.
Franky’s only access to the world of sound [...]

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