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Derrick Coleman Talks “No Excuses” on Child’s Voice Podcast
The NFL's first deaf offensive player is the guest on the latest episode of All Ears at Child's Voice: A Hearing Loss Podcast.
Derrick Coleman, Jr., the National Football League’s first deaf offensive player, is the special guest on the latest episode of All Ears at Child’s Voice: A Hearing Loss Podcast. Coleman played for the winning Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLVIII and most recently played for the Arizona Cardinals.
Created and produced by Child’s Voice staff, All Ears at Child’s Voice: A Hearing Loss Podcast aims to connect parents of children with hearing loss with the professionals who serve them.
Coleman shares about his experience growing up with hearing loss and learning to advocate for himself both in the classroom and on the football field. He established the No Excuses Foundation, whose mission is to empower, unite, and advocate for people of all ages who are deaf and hard-of-hearing.
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Talking about his Foundation, Coleman says, “I realized that it wasn’t actually just touching the hard-of-hearing/Deaf community. It was touching everybody who’d ever dealt with any obstacles, anybody whoever’s overcome struggle. And anybody whoever has had the percentages weighed against them.”
Coleman also talks about how his parents motivated him, the audiologist who worked with him, and how talking to younger people who are hard of hearing inspires him. Listen to the podcast at www.childsvoice.org/podcast. You can e-mail your comments and suggestions to podcast@childsvoice.org.
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Child’s Voice, based in Wood Dale and the Roscoe Village neighborhood in Chicago, helps children with hearing loss learn to listen and to speak. Students wear hearing aids and/or cochlear implants, and programs use a child-focused, research-based curriculum, all with the end goal of transitioning graduates back to their neighborhood schools. The Child’s Voice program serves nearly 400 children and their families each year.
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