My Daughter Jiang Xintian --Zhao Lin, Jiang Xintian' s mother
My daughter was born in the summer morning of 1984. Te whole family was lapped in the happiness of the coming of the new baby. Unfortunately, an anti-thrombotic needle deprived the baby's hearing when she was only 3 months old. All of a sudden, the happy family were caught in great grief…
I tried every hospital, but nobody could do anything to help. Frantic with grief, I lost my senses and wanted to end our lives in the sea…A sea wave roused my sleeping daughter and her cry waked me up: I have the responsibility to give birth to her, but I have no right to deprive her life. I swore to myself: whatever the sorrow and hardship might be, I will give her a happy life!
My sign language is
Free and natural dances,
Simple and straightforward words
And imaginary poems.
I desire to have a look at the world
And to listen to heartfelt wishes of human beings
With all of you.
--Jiang Xintian
I tried to train my daughter to practice vocalization. I put her hand on my throat and let her feel the vibration of the vocal cords. We started practicing from letters and repeated vocalizing the sounds time and time again. My love moved the Heaven. For the frst time, my daughter uttered the sound "Mum" at her age of three. Tough the sound was not clear, it was the most beautiful sound in the world. I was excited and found a tape recorder to record my daughter's voice. I couldn't fall asleep and listened to the tape time and time again. Tere was no enough of this.
