I’d like to give you a little bit of background about myself. I was born and bred in Burton-upon-Trent, where I still live to this day. My parents were both hearing and I was their only child. They had no reason to expect that I may be deaf. Of course, now we have new born hearing tests so deaf babies are diagnosed straight away, but at that time things were very different, so I was not diagnosed until I was one year old. 

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