![]() Cece wears the receiver, and her teacher, Mrs. When she starts first grade in a mainstream school, she is given a “Phonic Ear.” She can hear, very well, but it’s the mid-1970s and the technology is clunky: The Phonic Ear is a big box Cece wears strapped to her chest, wires running from it up to her ears. Cece’s friend asks her if she wants “shoes” (juice) or a “goat.” Looking at the Coke bottle, she says, “I’ll have the goat!” ![]() Those cords though.” She hears much better but still has trouble understanding. Her mother coaxes her into trying her new hearing aid, which has a box she wears on a strap around her neck. At first, like any newly and suddenly deafened person, she retreats into herself, scared and confused (“I stay close to Mama, no matter where she is”). ![]() In this appealing graphic memoir by the children’s book author and illustrator Cece Bell, young Cece is only 4 when she comes down with meningitis. ![]()
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