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Nancy’s Book Corner - Episode #8:
Gracie’s Ears (Friday, October 14, 2022)
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[00:00:00.24] Nancy's Book Corner, a read aloud of children's books that introduce disabilities and celebrate differences.
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[00:00:08.83] Hi. Welcome back to Nancy's Book Corner. I'm Nancy Trush, co-founder of Daniel's Music Foundation and Daniel's mom. As an early childhood educator, one of my favorite things to do is to share special books about differences with my students.
[00:00:29.94] The title of today's book is Gracie's Ears written and illustrated by Debbie Blackington. This is a story about a little girl named Gracie who loves to do all the things that other children love to do, but she has difficulty hearing. It's as if her ears are sleeping. During the story she and her family learn about hearing aids that help her discover the sounds of the world. Let's get started.
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[00:01:05.02] Nancy opens the book. We see Gracie doing each action.
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[00:01:09.01] When Gracie wakes up, she wiggles her toes. She looks with her eyes. She smells with her nose, but Gracie's ears are sleeping. She puts on her clothes, then comes down to eat. She brushes her hair, and slips shoes on her feet. She goes off to school where she runs out to play,
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[00:01:45.38] Gracie sits between two friends.
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[00:01:47.84] but when her friends talk she can't hear what they say because Gracie's ears are sleeping.
[00:01:59.06] Her family went to doctors and hospitals too.
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[00:02:03.59] Doctors examine Gracie.
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[00:02:05.24] They searched for some answers to know what to do to help Gracie's ears stop sleeping. Then earphones were placed on her head to play beeping sound games until doctors said, we can help Gracie's ears stop sleeping.
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[00:02:30.49] A doctor shows Gracie and her mom hearing aids.
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[00:02:33.35] Gracie needs hearing aids to help her hear, made just for her to fit in each ear. Hearing aids make sounds louder. They help push the sound through to have Gracie's ears work like most people do. This will make Gracie's ears stop sleeping.
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[00:03:01.08] A doctor makes ear molds.
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[00:03:02.79] Molds were made of her ears with special hearing aid goop. She got to pick colors from any group.
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[00:03:14.05] Colorful hearing aids in different patterns.
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[00:03:16.33] She chose between spots, wild, stripes, and swirls. There were stickers for boys, jewels for girls.
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[00:03:27.22] Gracie reaches for hearing aids.
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[00:03:29.66] At last they were done.
[00:03:31.98] Now the very best part when she put them on would her ears start?
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[00:03:40.46] Gracie smiles with her mouth open.
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[00:03:42.53] Gracie's eyes got large, her mouth was agape, sounds whoosh through her hearing aids, Gracie's ears were awake.
[00:03:55.61] She could hear her friends laugh. She could hear the bird sing. She could hear car horns beep. She could hear the phone ring. Everyone was so happy that Gracie could hear with swirled orange, pink, white, hearing aids she had in each ear.
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[00:04:22.88] Gracie stretches.
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[00:04:24.72] Now when Gracie wakes up she wiggles her toes. She looks with her eyes. And she smells with her nose.
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[00:04:34.92] Gracie puts in hearing aids.
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[00:04:37.39] Then she gets her hearing aids and puts one in each ear. She smiles a big smile because Gracie can hear.
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[00:04:51.19] Gracie smiles with her arms up and her hearing aids in her ears.
[00:04:55.43] Nancy closes the book and smiles.
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[00:04:58.36] I hope you enjoyed the story Gracie's Ears, where we discover that the use of hearing aids allows Gracie's ears to wake up so she could hear her friends laugh, birds sing, car horns beep, and the phone ring. I look forward to sharing another story with you again real soon. Goodbye.
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