Recently, though he narrowly missed a chance to compete in the 2012 Olympics,\u00a0Marcus Titus<\/a>, successfully lobbied US Swimming to allow the use of hand signals at the US Olympic Trials.<\/p>\n There were quite a few Olympic torch bearers with connections to hearing loss.\u00a0Two volunteers for Action on Hearing Loss<\/a> in the UK were chosen as torch bearers in Northern Ireland as well as\u00a0Matt Skinner<\/a>, another\u00a0Action on Hearing Loss<\/a> volunteer in Wales. Also, a young boy named Logan\u00a0raised quite a bit of money for hearing dogs<\/a>, with just a desire to help and a paper torch. It is truly a heartwarming story, of the how the excitement surrounding the games can lead to great things for a community.<\/p>\n As you watch the games this year, remember these wonderful stories and the young men and women making history in the 2012 games.<\/p>\n The information above is an exert from an article posted on\u00a0Stanford Universities Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss!<\/em>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2012 London Olympics games begin tonight! As the\u00a0excitement\u00a0builds for the opening ceremonies, we take a few moments to review the Olympians in this years games that have role modeled what someone with a hearing loss can do! The US will be cheering for\u00a0Chris Colwill, who was born with 60% hearing loss, and though he…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Hearing in the 2012 Games","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,9],"tags":[890,12,63,891,621],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/everhear.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/londonolympics.jpeg\" "\\"londonolympics\\"")
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