The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.

It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

I'm gonna be unemployed when people read this. Ha.

I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.

Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.