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• The effort to mainstream our daughter educationally was unsuccessful at the time because of her inadequate language and speech acquisition. • We were then exposed to a new world: the world of the Deaf and the world of people living with disabilities in general. • We had to balance the needs of two hearing older sisters and two hearing younger brothers with Susanna’s unique needs. • Having a child with a keen desire to learn, we experienced the obstacles to tertiary education in South Africa as being too large and the opportunities too restrictive. Therefore, she then applied for admission to Gallaudet University, the world’s only higher-education institution designed for Deaf students. This option was in stark contrast to the opportunities available to our hearing children. Unfortunately, this option is available to very few South Africans with hearing loss, as it is so expensive.