My daughter can hear the doorbell ring — once in a while. She can hear dogs barking and she says something that sounds a lot like “bless you” when you sneeze.
She sings “Wheels on the Bus” without any recognizable English words, but with a close enough approximation of the tune that anyone would recognize it. “Is she completely deaf?” people ask me all the time.
But that’s the wrong question. Medically speaking, she’s hard of hearing, but this child is capital-D Deaf from head to toe.
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