When Gina Oliva first went to school in 1955, she didn t know that she was different. If the kindergarten teacher played a tune on the piano to signal the next exercise, Oliva didn t react because she couldn t hear the music. So began her journey as a solitary, her term for being the only deaf child in the entire school. Gina felt alone because she couldn t communicate easily with her classmates, but also because none of them had a hearing loss like hers. It wasn t until years later at Gallaudet University that she discovered that she wasn t alone and that her experience was common among...
When Gina Oliva first went to school in 1955, she didn t know that she was different. If the kindergarten teacher played a tune on the piano to sig...