{"id":5714,"date":"2015-05-15T18:11:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T18:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everhear.wpengine.com\/?p=5714"},"modified":"2019-07-18T18:28:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T18:28:26","slug":"seahawk-derrick-coleman-visits-our-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/seahawk-derrick-coleman-visits-our-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawk, Derrick Coleman, Visits Our Patients!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In celebration of Better Hearing and Speech month, we had the honor of hosting Seattle Seahawk, Derrick Coleman, at Evergreen Speech and Hearing\u2019s Redmond clinic this week. Derrick met and signed autographs for hearing and speech patients and\u00a0shared his story of triumph over profound hearing loss.\u00a0Derrick also\u00a0spoke about his work with the No Excuses Foundation<\/a>–managed by\u00a0himself and his family–which seeks to encourage those with hearing impairment to take on the world with enthusiasm and a “no excuses” attitude. It was especially touching to see Derrick\u2019s interactions with the children at ESHC. He had a lot of wonderful things to say, but among the highlights was something his dad used to say and still rings true today: \u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t get ready\u2026be<\/em> ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

The line to see Derrick lasted\u00a0about two\u00a0hours\u00a0and the event drew quite the crowd.<\/p>\n

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To ease the wait, our SLPs and coordinators passed out cookies and\u00a0blew bubbles into the crowd, much to the delight of our little patients.<\/p>\n

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We also interviewed\u00a0some children\u00a0waiting in line. We asked them: If you could ask Derrick any question at all, what would it be? Here are the responses, along with\u00a0some picture highlights from this fantastic night! ESHC is so proud and happy to have hosted Derrick Coleman at our clinic, and we thank him for his inspiring presence and awesome work in the hearing and speech world!<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite food?\u201d \u2013 Bruce Sherwin.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cWhy is this line so long?\u201d – Abhiram Yakkali<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cHow does he catch the football?\u201d \u2013 Zoe Christiansen. (Patients at ESHC for 2+ years.)<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cWhat\u2019s it like being on the field?\u201d \u2013 Easton Rutter<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cDo you like football balloons?\u201d Riley Rutter<\/p>\n

Derrick has fun with our patients and staff!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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In celebration of Better Hearing and Speech month, we had the honor of hosting Seattle Seahawk, Derrick Coleman, at Evergreen Speech and Hearing\u2019s Redmond clinic this week. Derrick met and signed autographs for hearing and speech patients and\u00a0shared his story of triumph over profound hearing loss.\u00a0Derrick also\u00a0spoke about his work with the No Excuses Foundation–managed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_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":[26,9],"tags":[17,221,12,63,1090,1064],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}