My Hearing Loss Journey stories

I was four years old when my hearing loss was diagnosed. My family kept wondering for the first three years of my existence why I was strictly speaking gibberish. Doctors kept telling my family that I was just taking my time and there was nothing to worry about. Then, at a family Christmas dinner with all my cousins (all the same age), we had to sing a Christmas song we learned at preschool individually in front of the tree. I’ll let you imagine the disaster it was when it was my turn to sing. That’s when my family started to really worry. After several visits with different doctors, the kids’ hospital in Bern sent me to an audiologist for kids. I was told to put a little Lego character on the Lego boat each time I heard a noise through the headset. It is safe to say that the little boat was empty at the end of the test.

Hind Rasheed, a 17-year-old student from Lebanon living in Saudi Arabia, wrote an empowering essay about hearing loss for school.

Hind Rasheed’s Essay

For her English class, Hind Rasheed wrote an essay (linked at the end of this article) about hearing loss titled “Phonak.” She attends an American school in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.

I was four years old when my hearing loss was diagnosed. My family kept wondering for the first three years of my existence why I was strictly speaking gibberish. Doctors kept telling my family that I was just taking my time and there was nothing to worry about. Then, at a family Christmas dinner with all my cousins (all the same age), we had to sing a Christmas song we learned at preschool individually in front of the tree. I’ll let you imagine the disaster it was when it was my turn to sing. That’s when my family started to really worry. After several visits with different doctors, the kids’ hospital in Bern sent me to an audiologist for kids. I was told to put a little Lego character on the Lego boat each time I heard a noise through the headset. It is safe to say that the little boat was empty at the end of the test.

Hind Rasheed, a 17-year-old student from Lebanon living in Saudi Arabia, wrote an empowering essay about hearing loss for school.

Hind Rasheed’s Essay

For her English class, Hind Rasheed wrote an essay (linked at the end of this article) about hearing loss titled “Phonak.” She attends an American school in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.