Monday's Wave Maker & Fact of the Day!

Monday, April 5th

Wave Maker of the

Day

Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle

“Queen of the Waves”

1905 – 2003

She was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in five events. On August 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Among other nicknames, the press sometimes called her "Queen of the Waves”.

Ederle had hearing loss since childhood due to contracting the measles, and by the 1940’s she was profoundly deaf. She taught swimming to deaf children as well. She achieved a lifetime record of twenty-nine U.S. and world swimming records. Ederle won a gold medal in the 400 meter freestyle relay and bronze medals in the 100 meter and 400 meter freestyle races in the 1924 Paris Olympics. Ederle was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1965. She was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of fame in 2003. An annual swim from New York City's Battery Park to Sandy Hook, New Jersey, is called the Ederle Swim in her memory and follows the course she swam.

Fact of the Day

There are four types

hearing loss

● Sensorineural hearing loss, which means there is a problem occurring in either the inner ear or the auditory nerve, which delivers sound to the brain.

● Conductive hearing loss, which means sound is not reaching the inner ear, usually due to an obstruction or trauma.

● Mixed, which is a combination of the two.

● Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder, which means hearing loss that occurs when sound enters the ear normally, but because of damage to the inner ear or the hearing nerve, sound isn’t organized in a way that the brain can understand.

Post a picture or video of yourself waving your hands, waving a flag, jumping in the waves

Post a picture or video of yourself making waves for Deaf and Hard of Hearing children

Post a picture or video of someone that is making waves for Deaf and Hard of Hearing children

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Tuesday, April 6th

5-9pm

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