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Charlie's Hearing Loss In Speak To Me By Marcia Forecki

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Speak to Me is a true-life story that deals with a single mother Marcia Forecki discovering that her one-year-old son Charle is deaf and how she went about helping her son to continue to develop like any other child.Charlie was born deaf he has a congenital hearing loss. He wasn’t diagnosed until he was one and half years old. During Charlie’s early months his mother Marcia was oblivious to his hearing loss. According to Marcia Charlie's boyhood was replete with clues that should have alerted her to his deafness.Being a foreign-language teacher, Marcia wanted Charlie to grow up bilingual. So she began using Spanish during the day and would switch to English during the evenings. Marcia insisted on surrounding Charlie with music. She dreamed he would be a classical musician. When looking back Marica remembers many examples of charlie’s hearing loss. Marica would read stories to Charlie faithfully but during their reading sessions, Charlie would grow impatient after …show more content…

They were having difficulties one day her husband announced that he was bringing his girlfriend home with him and he suggested Marcia leaves before she arrived. So Marica packed up and moved to Kansas City to live with her parents. It was immediately evident to Marcia’s family that there was an issue with Charlie’s hearing. He wouldn’t answer to his name and he didn’t speak. But Marcia would start listing off excuses and she at the time felt there was no reason to believe that Charlie was deaf. When her family got tired of her excuses they tried to convince her that there was, in fact, an issue with Charlie’s hearing they took every occasion to demonstrate Charles's poor response to noises. When her parents spoke to Marica about setting up an appointment for Charlie’s hearing she became very defensive. But seeing as to how she needed the support of her family to reestablish her single life she chose to compromise and an appointment was

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