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"Will he be able to enjoy music?"
Schuurman family
Deafness
"Meeting deaf adults gave our parents a positive attitude towards deaf children."
"His hearing loss quickly became less important."
"My parents were fine with my deafness because of our Islamic faith."
"Five days after his birth he was already getting hearing tests done."
"Some deaf children think it's something to grow out of."
"Society makes us handicapped."
"As a child I didn't know putting something down on a table made a sound."
"I really wonder how he's going to experience it later on."
"My third child was hearing, which was new to me."
"We've never decided not to do something because they're deaf. The audiologist told us: you can grow up to be old and happy with it."
"If you can't hear, you're deaf. I think 'very severely hearing impaired' is very weird."
"People looked at me funny when I said I didn't think it was sad to be deaf at all."
"It wasn't until later that we realized: not being able to hear, that's actually kind of complicated."
"Deafness used to not be quite as well known, my mother would explain what it was to the other children."
"We can tell friends and family something about his development, but his ears won't change."
"A CI can be useful if you get it when you're still young, but it's no use to me."
"The youngest is now two years old, I don't know if they're gonna use a hearing aid."
"My parents could ask our deaf babysitter all kinds of questions about deaf people."
"I have felt like we were missing help from within the deaf community. You mostly see hearing professionals."
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