Hearing Health Summer 2015 Issue Summer 2015 | страница 20

living with hearing loss

‘

Hearing
Makes Me
Happy!

‘

Alex Mussomeli is proof that

technology and a supportive family

Mussomeli, age 10
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can provide the right environment for
a child with hearing loss.

M

eet Alex Mussomeli. Alex just finished the fourth
grade and lives in Connecticut. He loves music
and art and is talented at both, especially art. His
favorite subjects are science and technology, because he
likes learning how things work. He also cooks and plays
video games and sports (soccer, swimming, tennis).
By all accounts Alex is a typical elementary school kid.
But what is phenomenal about Alex is how much he is
comfortable with and unfazed by his hearing loss, and
also how much, for a young child just 10 years old, he
understands the technology that helps him to hear.
Diagnosed with sensorineural hearing loss as an infant,
Alex was fitted with hearing aids in both ears at age 3

Photos courtesy of Mussomeli family

“How happy
can you be if you have
a hearing loss or deafness?
You can be very happy if you
have a hearing aid or a cochlear
implant. I can talk and hear
people around me. I can hear
music and birds. I can be
a hearing kid!” —Alex