2016 Scholarship Entries

When I was just a baby, my mother and father found out that, I had a hole in my heart, the term used so often called a heart murmur. Shortly, I was rushed into surgery to repair the hole in the heart. Surgery went well. However, I still need it to be monitored until I...

There were eight minutes left for the game; we had a tied score. As a defensive player, I knew I had to do the best I could to not let the opposing team score a goal and win the game. The whistle, the shouts, the cheers, the players and so much movement going on...

I’m a helper. I’m a giver (often times too much). And I’m a fighter. Truth be told, I’ve been completely lost. People would say all kinds of things about me…whether it was about my appearance, my weird voice, or my unique accent which was a mixed of Spanish and...

[column width="1/1" last="true" title="" title_type="single" animation="none" implicit="true"] Listen Being born deaf, I have to live knowing nothing can fix my ears. I primed myself to question the context of every sentence ever spoken to me. My teachers told me it...

[column width="1/1" last="true" title="" title_type="single" animation="none" implicit="true"] A Glimpse at the Life of a Star Choir Student with A Hearing Impairment When I was twelve years old, I was diagnosed with a rare tumor titled Cholesteatoma. This horridly...

“Imagine how well she would do if she did not have a hearing loss.” This a phrase my mother commonly uses when discussing my grades, especially to my teachers. As an A-B student who is involved in Advanced Placement and honor courses, I personally feel that I do...

I was born in Viet Nam with a cleft pallet and sever ear problems. When I was five months old I was abandoned at an orphanage. The day I was dropped off my orphanage care takers were sure I would die that night. But I am a fighter and I lived. At thirteen months old...

Dear David A. Black Hearing Impaired Scholarship committee, As of August 1st, 2016 I will be relocating to Washington, DC and will begin my studies in Masters of Arts in Public Administration program at Gallaudet University. Gallaudet University is the only liberal...

The Fight I’ve never been in a fight. Now, I’ve been pushed to my breaking point once back in middle school, prodded by a girl who thought it was funny to rip my hearing aids out of my ears, but no, I’ve never actually participated in one. I was writing a short story...

Over the course of my life, my hearing loss has been an academic horror story. When I was in preschool, we found out about my hearing loss and I was not allowed to come to the preschool because of it. The main reason as to why, I believe, is because the teachers did...