Thursday, December 16, 1999
Hearing aids will help budding scientist
BY JOHN JOHNSTON
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Marshall McFarland's hearing aids are 6 years old.
(Saed Hindash photo)
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Marshall McFarland thinks he might want to be a scientist when he grows up. His interest in rocks might point him toward geology.
Marshall, a sixth-grader at Robert E. Lucas Intermediate School in Sharonville, has plenty of time to make career decisions. But his parents know one thing requires immediate attention: his hearing.
The 11-year-old Sycamore Township boy has severe hearing loss in both ears. The problem was detected when Marshall entered kindergarten.
Hearing aids allow him to function well in a classroom with hearing students. But the pair he now has is six years old, and frequently needs repair. A new, more reliable pair is needed.
Although Marshall doesn't like wearing hearing aids to class — he'd rather be just like all the other kids — he and his parents know he must.
“He really needs them in school,” says his mother, Roxanne Crisp, noting that her son is earning mostly B's this year. Without the devices, “he'll miss too much. He'll miss what the teacher's saying.”
Both his parents work, but they can't afford a new pair of hearing aids, and their medical insurance doesn't cover them.
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