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>> ANITA STEIN-MEYERS: All of us here at the Center for Hearing and Communication are have
really been very excited and honored and pleased to work with an eleven year old young boy
who is in the United States for several weeks. He and his mother traveled here from Liberia
for some hope and some assistance and some guidance. Yes! Good work! Put that on by himself.
(Anita produces a series of "ahs" and "ees" to which Saron listens and responds)
>> LOIS HEYMANN: Nancy's turn. Listen. Listen.
Ahhh. Good job. Listen.
Ahhh. Good job.
Your turn. Ready. Listen.
Ahhh. Listen.
Ahhh. Listen.
Ahhh. Wonderful job!
Ooo, ooo, ooo. Perfect. Perfect.
Ahh, ahh. These are Sounds in Motion.
Ahhh. Listen. UUUp.
Up.Up. UUUp.
Puh,puh, puh, pop. Right.
>> ANITA STEIN-MEYERS: The first time that the hearing aids were placed on: the biggest
smile in the world. You could just see him grinning ear to ear. He was vocalizing very
loudly, really ecstatic I think to be able to hear his own voice.
He's been wearing the hearing aid for several days and has started to work with speech pathologist
Lois Heymann. And we all are very hopeful that with an appropriate educational setting,
which has not been able to be provided for him at his home in Liberia, he will develop
a more formal communication mode. And being able to hear is a very critical part of that.