Little Girl Hears for First Time
By: KJRH
Updated: March 6, 2013
(KJRH) It's a moment that was nearly two years in the making.
In December, a Tulsa, Oklahoma family was finally able to adopt a 5-year-old hearing impaired girl from China with whom they fell in love last June.
On Tuesday, thanks to a cochlear implant, their daughter was able to hear for the first time.
Jayde Scholl was placed in a Chinese orphanage after she was found abandoned in a town square when she was 8 months old.
She had never had access to hearing devices of any kind until she was adopted by the Tulsa family -- a family uniquely equipped to help her learn how to hear.
Jaque is a doctor of audiology at the Scholl Center, a speech and hearing clinic. The Scholls were in a position to not only love Jayde but to truly help her.
International adoptions take time. However, the window to help Jayde was closing.
"When you have a child who is 5 years old and first getting sound, we've missed a lot critical time for speech and language," Jaque explains.
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