Resounding Resilience: Emery's Hailey Sutin '30 & Strake Jesuit's Alex Narcisse on embracing life in a hearing world
The seventh grader at Emery/Weiner would love to write a book about her hearing loss for an eighth-grade passion project in the future.
She has a cochlear implant in each ear but struggles to keep up in group social environments.
“Sometimes I can’t hear them and then they say, ‘never mind’ if I ask what was being said,” Hailey says. “I don’t press them sometimes to see what the conversation was about. Talking to a person in a one-on-one setting is much better. Also, school group projects are harder for me.”