Diego Neumaire was born without ears 11 years ago to a poor family in Mexico. Despite the odds he has excelled, winning the National Championship of the Mexican Gymnastics Federation this past April.
His story has so compelled Dr. John Reinisch that the Hancock Park resident is donating his skills as a world-class surgeon in ear reconstructive surgery. He is also on a fundraising campaign to help pay $40,000 for hospital and travel fees. …
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SURGEON SEEKS TO RESTORE GYMNAST’S HEARING
Impaired hearing is not much of a barrier for children in gymnastics and other individual acrobatic sports.
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Something has impaired that boy’s splits.
there is a “senior” deaf gymnast in the USA who accomplished some pretty amazing things….
Kevin Perkins was a gymnast at the U.Washington who at the 2006 USA Championships finished 5th on Rings and 8th on Vault. Kevin is believed to be the only deaf gymnast ever to compete at the national level or USA Championships.
A few years back a little girl joined our trampoline class, and she was just impossible to deal with. We’d ask her to make a correction and she would just ignore us or nod her head and fail to make any change. We were getting exasperated with her, we thought perhaps she might have some sort of learning disability because she never would absorb anything we asked of her. A few months later during a regular doctor’s appointment her mother discovered that she was nearly deaf. She was 7 years old and had been lip reading the whole time, with her little sister repeating things for her at home. No wonder she couldn’t hear our corrections that we would yell at her while she was on the tramp! We felt so bad haha, but from then on we always made sure she was looking at our faces when we asked things of her, and she EXCELLED! the improvement was amazing!! I beleive she even placed in a few provincial competitions.
Aimee Lee-Walker is a great example of that. I believe she is deaf is one ear? Or is that deaf in both and blind in one eye? Yeah, the details are eluding me but it would be easy enough to find out.
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