Many in the hearing community assume that people with hearing loss will always tend to take a backseat when it comes to being in the public eye.
Someone should have explained this to Karla Marie Brown, as she is a deaf performer. She models, dances and sings. She’s also deaf and proud of it.
Discovering her hearing loss
This deaf performer didn’t start out that way – deaf, that is.
“I studied performing arts for four years,” Brown says. “Having started my professional training at Evolution Foundation College in Essex in 2015, I then went on to complete a three-year training course at Wilkes Academy of Performing Arts in Swindon. I graduated on the 6th July 2019.”
The now 21-year-old began having problems hearing during her last year of high school. Her struggles were ignored until she began training in college.
“My mum started noticing me missing things she said and playing the TV too loud,” Brown says. “I then spent months going to and from hospital appointments meeting ENTs and audiologists who I didn’t quite fit well with, until I finally found a wonderful audiologist who listened to my needs.”
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