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Inspiring Video: Adopted, Deaf Chinese Girl Found Abandoned on the Street Hears for the First Time

Mar. 7, 2013 10:36am Liz Klimas

At 8-months-old, Jayde Scholl was found abandoned on the street in China. The girl, who was born deaf and is now 5 years old, has experienced several life-changing moments — all in the last few months.

Scholl, according to KOTV News on 6, was adopted by a couple in Tulsa, Okla., and brought to the U.S. in December. Then, just this week, she was able to hear for the very first time.

Adopted Tulsa 5 Year Old Hears for the First Time

Jayde Scholl hears for the first time. (Image: KOTV screenshot)

Of course the local news was there to capture her reaction when her cochlear implant was turned on Tuesday. Watch her glee when she hears the noises around her:

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Scholl could not have been adopted by a more appropriate couple, given her hearing condition. The 5-year-old’s adoptive mother is Dr. Jacque Scholl, who owns of the Scholl Center for Communication Disorders. But KOTV reported Dr. Scholl saying she didn’t even know the girl was deaf at first.

“I have to tell you it was a little breathtaking,” Dr. Scholl said to KOTV of the experience witnessing her daughter hear for the first time. “She’s never looked at us when we’ve done anything or said anything, we’ve sat behind her with pots and pans and she wore hearing aids but she had no residual hearing.”

Jayde with her mother (right) and the doctor helping her hear (left). (Image: KOTV screenshot)

In addition to this groundbreaking moment for the younger Scholl, KOTV reported she will also be among the first children worldwide next month to get a smaller implant made possible by a new processor. KJRH expounded upon the device further, calling it a RONDO.

According to a press release from the device’s manufacturer, MED-EL, the RONDO was just approved by the FDA in November 2012. It is a single-unit, ear-free (most cochlear implants wrap around the ear and connect to the head) device that is more discreet because, as the press release stated, it can disappear under a person’s hair. Fewer parts also mean more durability.

In other hearing-related news, researchers at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University recently discovered the genetic mutation that is tied to some deafness.

According to Israel Innovation News (via Jspace), the mutation was found in the LINC family protein. Here’s what happens to cause this genetic disorder:

For generations, members of these families had been suffering from hearing loss, but the medical cause remained a mystery. Using deep genetic sequencing, a technology used to sequence the entire human genome, [Professor Karen] Avraham discovered that the hearing impaired members of both families had a mutated version of the protein Nesprin4, a part of the LINC group of proteins that links the cell’s nucleus to the inner wall of the cell.

In these families, the cell nucleus, which contains our entire DNA, moves to the top of the cell rather than being anchored to the bottom, its normal place. Though this has little impact on the functioning of most of the body’s cells, it is devastating for the cells responsible for hearing, Avraham explains. “The position of the nucleus is important for receiving the electrical signals that determine proper hearing,” she says. “Without the ability to receive these signals correctly, the entire cascade of hearing fails.”

With this discovery, the researchers believe it could help pave the way for new treatments or gene therapy.

(H/T: Daily Mail)

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sizzlinsexybeckster
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 10:50pm
This is very sweet! Such a darling little girl!

Why did she have to move here to America? Now her new parents will have to fear our government will euthanize her since she has a disability. Sorry about our disgusting law officials little girl! :o(

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BetterInformed
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 9:53pm
Americans adopt thousands of special needs children annually. As with this story, many of their stories are both amazing and moving.http://www.rainbowkids.com

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 8:30pm
This is the same feeling that people get when they download the free audio of the Mark Levin show, they understand contemporary politics for the first time of their lives?

You can huss and fuss,
you can pout and plead,
but you can’t stop freedom’s greed in need,
we got the seed, planting for trade,
you know you read it, reading the blaze?

Thank you Glenn Beck, for another story that touches our hearts in a positive way, because that what it means to work for Mercury.

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duncan1622
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 8:10pm
Now that, is who we are!

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DZ-015
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 5:17pm
Will be listening to Rush tomorrow to see if he picks up on this uplifting story.

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MarvinMr
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 12:47pm
Beautiful.

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- battles
  Posted on March 7, 2013 at 1:31pm
  But NOT to Sam Hendrickson.
  http://www.theblaze.com//stories/2013/03/06/ucla-student-wants-you-to-know-all-the-reasons-he-would-hate-to-be-asian-but-he-says-its-not-racist/
  
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Spitfire1938
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 12:40pm
What a joy-filled story! She is just “PERFECT”… God bless her, her parents and her skillful medical Team.

Fortunately however, In the “REAL” world, and just a short time from now, the “Anointed One” will put an end to such nonsensical misguided and wasteful high cost procedures. Then the ‘real’ American people, with undisguised triumphant enthusiasm, are expected to rush into the streets, unchained at last; finally FREE to demonstrate their unbounded LOVE and support for “The Savior’s” RIGHT to Command them, with understanding and compassion, from atop his eagerly anticipated neo PROGRESSIVE putsch regime! Then, finally, there will be no need to shed tears over such silly sentimentality!

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- 1956
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 8:23am
  Love the (appropriate) sarcasm.
  
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jeffile
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 12:17pm
The compassion of Americans never ceases to amaze me. I wonder which peoples of other countries and cultures would even consider adoption of a foreign born child let alone one with disabilities. BTW, the comment regarding this is how it is done in China fails to take in to account that it is boys which are desirable and, assuming the birth mother, is law abiding, will never be allowed another child. Maybe she wanted to wait and have a healthy boy and get rid of a disabled girl.

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- BetterInformed
  Posted on March 7, 2013 at 9:42pm
  It happens all around the world. The majority of children adopted internationally are special needs.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwY8CVryB9w
  
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DSN397
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 11:47am
It’s wonderful she can now hear, but it’s horrible what the poor thing will have to listen to. It would have behooved her to only be albe to watch Obama’s lips move and not be able to hear all the lie’s he spews froth. Of course it will only be a matter of time until, hearing or not, she’s put in a position to be brainwashed by the communist education program, who are doing Obama’s work and instilling the progressive-liberat mindset at schools and colleges even as I write this

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- OniKaze
  Posted on March 7, 2013 at 12:31pm
  I agree… As much as I like hearing… Sometimes, I wish I could just “turn it off”….
  
  I am glad she is being helped, and is apparently being a happy child…
  
  Good for her…
  
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AnnieMouse
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 11:23am
Vis a vis the little girl being found on the street, it is illegal to relinquish a child in China. The traditional way of placing a child for adoption is to put the child in a public place where she will be quickly noticed and taken to an orphanage and I am sure that this girl’s parents were watching to make sure that happened. They did the best they could for her.

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- BetterInformed
  Posted on March 7, 2013 at 9:44pm
  Very well said. And so true. http://www.somewherebetweenmovie.com/
  
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tboltdon
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 11:22am
I have had a CI for 4 years. Hearing went from 10% to 90%. All the best to you Jayde.

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- IMCHRISTIAN
  Posted on March 7, 2013 at 11:55am
  That was so great for you and God Bless you as I can almost see tears from you for this new way of living for this little girl.
  
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- BayuzhiZERO
  Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:54pm
  Hear hear, good sir (or ma’am). I know how you feel!
  
  I was born with a 70% hearing loss, that was corrected to around 50%, but has since degraded to just short of 80%. I can’t hear in the left side at all, but the right side still works.
  
  Stories like these make me so happy to see that no one will have to grow up the way I did (children are cruel and evil creatures if not raised right). It does help that young Jayde here is an adorable child, and I don’t think it could have happened for a sweeter child.
  
  Here is hoping that this can soon be available for every deaf or hearing impaired child.
  
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nzkiwi
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 11:08am
What a pretty smile that little girl has. Bless her

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13th Imam
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 11:08am
Great Story
I wonder if the Scholl Center has any openings? Our pres. claims ,in his own words, to “Transparency”, yet the very definition of transparency is the ability to be easily seen thru, free from deceit and readily understood. He is NONE of those things. Yet the low info voter and the truly stupid and the purposely evil all revere him.

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 10:59am
Another day in AMERICA! This Country is awesome. I cannot help but think the outcome for this little girl compared to obama’s central planner’s Utopia.. A Utopia where little girls end up dismembered in a dumpster behind ‘PLANNERS PARENTHOOD’

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Gonzo
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 10:58am
Dang it Blaze, you made me cry. Has communism made the Chinese people so heartless or is it Chinese culture? Abandoning a baby seems unthinkable, but after seeing the little Chinese girl run over in the street like a raccoon last year, I’m not surprised.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on March 7, 2013 at 11:06am
  This is what the Administration wants for us here. Multiple cabinet positions have expressed admiration for the Chinese system in how they treat their people. What they don’t want from the Chinese is the how easier it is to do business in China than the US.
  
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- AnnieMouse
  Posted on March 7, 2013 at 11:18am
  Placing a baby or child in a public place where the child will be found and cared for (taken to the orphanage) is the traditional Chinese way of placing a child for adoption–and continues today, when relinquishing a child is illegal in China. This girl’s parents did the best they could for her and I am sure they were waiting to see that she was found.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 7, 2013 at 11:20am
  GONZO, You pegged it right with the mention of Communism.
  
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- Khardee1250
  Posted on March 7, 2013 at 1:55pm
  We just completed adopting our daughter with Cerebral Palsy last October. The issue in China is that the Gov’t only covers about 10% of medical costs. Parents of children with disabilities know that the orphanages will provide a better opportunity for their child than they could ever hope for. While it’s heartbreaking that someone could abandon their child, many times it’s the best option for these children to get the medical help they need.
  
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9111315
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 10:56am
“abandoned on the street in China.”

Nothing newsworthy about that comment.

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woodyee
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 10:49am
Liz, Liz…

I get you now. Thank you. you’re a trooper.

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biohazard23
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 10:48am
Awesome!!! What a beautiful little girl. God bless her and her family.

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- objectivetruth
  Posted on March 7, 2013 at 11:05am
  Yes she is.Ironically its almost the only story I’ve heard in twenty years where I think the adoption was benefical.Kudo’s to them all.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 7, 2013 at 11:22am
  BIOHAZARD, So true. I cannot account for what happened to her earlier, but her future is certainly bright now.
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 10:44am
VERCEOFREASON will be pissed that she was not aborted.

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- DinkMcDinkleman
  Posted on March 7, 2013 at 12:23pm
  Your LOL pic is freakin’ rad. Verceofreason is a real troll around here, huh? He/she had commented all over the boards on the story about the surrogate mother who refused to abort her disabled child.
  
  Disabled kids are the best kids. I’m a bit biased though. :D
  
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- docvet
  Posted on March 7, 2013 at 4:12pm
  What a little doll. She showed no fear when she heard for the first time. Best wishes to her and deepest thanks to her adoptive parents.
  
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huey6367
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 10:43am
A success story on so many levels. I wish her the best in everything.

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