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Using your personal struggles as your personal story with Emma Faye Rudkin
Description
Emma Faye Rudkin is an internationally-known role model for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community and founder of a nonprofit organization, Aid the Silent. . The overall mission is to aid economically-disadvantaged deaf children and teens to reach their full potential and to live life more richly by providing funds to receive hearing and speech resources, ASL lessons, ministry-related activities and education enrichment programs.
Today we talk about growing up deaf, the challenges she has faced, and what she is doing to change how deaf and hard of hearing people are living and thriving.
Highlights from the episode:
- Emma Faye’s journey with hearing loss and learning to live deaf
- What life like living as a child with hearing loss
- What life changing event led her to her purpose
- Starting a non profit at 18 years old
- How Aid the Silent is changing thousands of lives
- The cost of being a child with hearing loss
- Emma Faye’s struggle with anxiety and depression
- Linking depression with missed human connection
- Emma Faye’s constant struggle
- How you can help support the deaf and hard of hearing
Resources:
Free ASL classes at Galludet University
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